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...staffs has consequences for student employment, as well as for professors' research The school has also lost such projects as the 10 year old American Indian program, which offered classes in Indian affairs and gave assistance to native Indian students. The program stopped receiving funding last year. Such cuts "lessen the vitality and diversity" of the school, but they do not threaten its survival, says Blenda Wilson, director of finances at the Ed School...
Predictably, Brezhnev complained that the U.S. proposal was "absolutely one-sided." Yet, amid his anti-American rhetoric, there was a cautious but clear sign that the two superpowers might resume discussions of ways to lessen the global peril wrought by their growing strategic arsenals. For Brezhnev also said of the U.S. offer, "In our opinion, this is a step in the right direction...
...more distressing to College officials the gaps in athletic participation will almost certainly not lessen at all next year...
...fact that many members of the academy acquiesced in the activities of a certain senator from Wisconsin a decade earlier, and failed to reassess their roles in society when faced with a frontal assault on academic freedom, shows that the "multiversity" had to be shaken from below to lessen its rigidity. The university-as-fortress had bred a state-of-siege mentality; thus Nathan Pusey called in the police...
...unraveled key alliances. It has dissipated much of the good will gamed by Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative, an economic and trade development plan that is currently being challenged in Congress by special-interest groups. A House Ways and Means Subcommittee, for example, voted last week to lessen trade preferences for shoes and rum. The Administration position on the Falklands has also undercut its controversial goal of convincing Latin America that the most dangerous threat to the stability of the hemisphere is the kind of subversion, promoted by the Soviets and their surrogates, that currently threatens the government...