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Both Epps and Tyler said next year's group sessions will be more intensive because they will be open to all student organization. But each cautioned that the project was expected to be low-key with the program's effectiveness dependent, on student initiative...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: College Providing Free Advice On Finances to Student Groups | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

With his customary low-key style, Howard Baker subtly increased the pressure on the President. He telephoned the White House to report that he would be unable to restrain the Senate Budget Committee for much longer, even though it is dominated by Republicans. If there is no firm agreement on the outlines for a new budget package by this week, Baker warned, the committee would begin fashioning a package of smaller defense-funding increases, new revenue-raising taxes and entitlement-program reductions on its own. Baker said he would be powerless to stop such a move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stumbling to a Showdown | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...depend on the cooperation of host governments, in particular, the Vietnamese, for whom the Amerasians are a touchy subject. The State Department, as well as organizations trying to get access to these children in Vietnam, stress that any attempt to aid the Vietnamese Amerasians will have to be very low-key...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: A Question of Conscience | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

...athletic secretaries interviewed all stressed that Straus competition should be low-key and fun, despite the obvious rivalries between the Houses. "Intramural should be enjoyable," stressed Durum. "But then to keep people waking up at 6 in the morning we've got to keep that Cup in the distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Straus Cup Race | 4/7/1982 | See Source »

...first husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera vérité, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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