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Others countered that delaying would lessen the impact of the reaction. "After the events this weekend, the University community is looking to us for response," said Lowell House representative Erica S. Eisenberg...
...With the coming of co-residency in 1971, the amount of entertaining that the masters do has expanded exponentially," Heimert said. He added that the proposals asked the College to provide the co-masters with more help, in order to lessen the amount of "scullery work" they do Heimert refused to elaborate on the exact nature of the recommendations...
...networks are also de-emphasizing daily stories from the bus or plane. Says CBS News Vice President Joan Richman: "We have made some effort this year to report the campaign in a broader context and to lessen the sort of fragmentary coverage you get when your only reporting is from each individual candidate." CBS Correspondents Susan Spencer and Lem Tucker have been encouraged to step back from the Mondale and Glenn buses to work on "big picture" stories. Other analytical pieces on specific issues or themes have been done by each network's senior political reporters...
Reagan already flubbed the opportunity to lessen the dangerous cold war mentality that has descended on the superpowers by sending his vice president. George Bush, to Moscow in his place. Reagan's snub, coming on the heels of a similar turn-down upon Leonid Brezhnev's death, only underscores his lack of understanding about the finer points of superpower relations...
...nuclear issue had received only cursory consideration from within the Democratic camp precisely because a consensus has been reached so quickly. But, for the Democrats to present a realistic alternative to the Reagan militarism, they must develop a realistic proposal to bring the arms race under control and lessen the likelihood of Armageddon...