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Such decisions promise to make the coming decade the most difficult ever faced by America's institutions of higher learning. By the year 2000, many educators predict, the country will have leaner universities and a smaller system of higher education. But that may be appropriate. In the past 20 years, too many colleges overbuilt, too many aspired to do too much, and as a result, too many are competing frantically -- and wastefully -- for the same students. "We need more community colleges and fewer research universities," observes Duffey of American University, "and there should be more liberal- arts schools focusing...
...next two years, our entire work force in North America will be only about half the size it was in 1985. We're steadily reducing the number of layers between the shop floor and my office. We have a vision of being ready for the 21st century, of being leaner and a fiercer competitor...
...years it would take to establish regional government, neglected problems would just grow worse. His newly appointed Growth Management Council advocates tighter coordination of existing regional agencies. Says council chairman Richard Sybert: "It's a question of making them all more sensitive, more sensible, more focused -- and probably leaner...
Brownell believes yo-yo dieting may eventually prove most dangerous, not for people who are vastly overweight, but for people who are continuously battling those last five or 10 excess pounds. "These people are fighting their own biology," he says. "Our notion of the ideal body is much leaner than it needs to be for health reasons...
CAPTION: NATO'S LEANER FIGHTING MACHINE