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Carnes also echoed statements by David W.Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, whoearlier this year charged that the nation's 100most expensive and selective universities increasetheir tuitions to maintain an elite status andthus enlarge their applicant pools. Brenemanadmitted that he was following the pack himself...
...handful of industry analysts maintain that a cease-fire will make little difference in prices. World demand for crude is flat, they argue, and OPEC, which controls only 37% of the market, in contrast to 56% in 1973, may find it difficult to push prices much higher. "If the war ends, the geopolitics of oil are changed greatly," says Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass. "But the price may not be changed nearly as much." The possibility of peace in the Persian Gulf seems to have left the petroleum community as bewildered as the rest...
...question is whether an end to the gulf war will allow it to reduce its formidable naval buildup in the area. The current U.S. flotilla numbers 26 ships and costs an estimated $140 million a year to maintain. The U.S. has no intention of completely ending its naval presence in the gulf, which goes back nearly 40 years, and even a partial pullback of current forces will probably depend on a reassuring period of quiet. But, said Secretary of State George Shultz, who received news of the Iranian offer while visiting Tokyo, "if the problems go away, the ship presence...
...chastity and masturbation as evil. He attempts to question whether the impetus was from within the town--men in the towns--or whether it was from without--salesmen and other wanderers who happened to be in town for a few days. And in the process he is able to maintain a light writing style that, while informative and academic, is not too ponderous to be enjoyed...
...Republicans will have to match the Democrats with a Southern strategy before and after the their convention next month. If the Republicans are able to maintain their popularity with the Southern voters, Dukakis would have to change his vice-presidential selection to Robert. E. Lee to have a chance...