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Among the panel's recommendations was a call for the replacement of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with an executive agency headed by a single administrator. At present, the five-member NRC must make all major decisions by majority vote...
Baker wanted to start big so he waited for the "debate of the century" over the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Early last summer he threatened strong opposition to the treaty unless President Carter and the Russians agreed to major changes. Unfortunately for Baker, the public does not seem to care as much about SALT II as Baker and his Democratic counterpart, Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (W. Va.). Baker's amendments, which had the potential to kill SALT II, met defeat by a one-vote margin in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday, and Capitol Hill colleagues...
...When the company was founded, I felt it was important to keep the number of people small--it's cheap, effective, and lets you focus on the major issues," Cabot says. "The great joy and benefit Harvard has is one account for one group of people around a table...
...Major economic disasters might force Harvard to curtail academic programs or pay more attention to the financial resources of applicants. Putnam says, "Things maybe won't work the way we want them, and there might be disasters, but I think we can handle them...
...never really been a major problem. The Massachusetts Mental Health Center hasn't forced treatment on patients in the past," Hilliard said...