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...children at the center had told investigators that they had been sexually abused. No sooner had the city-funded facility reopened last week than it was revealed that four other Bronx institutions were under investigation for similar reasons. Criticism centered on New York City's mammoth agency, the Human Resources Administration, which oversees 385 day care programs. The long-controversial HRA had been under a shadow since last May, when a city investigation found a subagency "seriously negligent" in the deaths of nine Brooklyn children between 1979 and 1981. The HRA director and one of his top deputies resigned...
...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
Ford is also promoting performance. It jammed a mammoth V-8 engine into its compact Mustang and produced a car with neck-snapping acceleration: 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 7.2 sec. The luxurious Continental Mark VII LSC has been redesigned for better handling. It has a new slippery shape and a suspension system that uses air-filled rubber sacks instead of steel shock absorbers. Another manufacturer that has been especially successful with cars designed for demanding drivers is Pontiac. In addition to the Fiero, it has won over customers with its 6000 STE, a mid-size model aimed at wooing...
...tokenism goes into who is selected--the board includes a token professor, a token Boston-area businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are one of the country's leading physicists, the chairman of the mammoth Boston-based Gillette Corporation, the head of a large group of Boston mutual funds, a star Cleveland tax attorney, and the president of a huge shipping company who doubles as one of the $350 million Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen...
Producing each edition is a mammoth undertaking that draws on the strained energies of 92 staff members, plus outside authors and faculty consultants. Regular issues include articles written by professors or practitioners, student-written analytical "notes," and book reviews...