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Of those opposing Carter's decision, 57 per cent would consider refusing to register. Chip Storey '83 said yesterday "Reinstituting registration is just grand-standing on the part of President Carter--it's a political maneuver."

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Poll of Students Shows Split On Carter's New Draft Policy | 1/25/1980 | See Source »

There are signs that a small group of unknown investors, which rumormongers in the futures market variously identify as shady Middle Easterners, tricky Europeans and even sinister folk from Staten Island, are plotting an unscrupulous investment maneuver known as a squeeze play. If they are, the price of silver could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold and Silver Go Bonkers | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger hears an echo from the 18th century, when armies used to maneuver around each other. The one emerging in an inferior position often surrendered quickly so that it could live to fight again. "We march television cameras instead of troops," he says. Warfare that used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shadow Dancing with the World | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The Saudi maneuver was a last-minute gamble to regain control over a cartel that shows signs of breaking into a wild scramble for ever greater profits. In a losing struggle to impose some restraint on surging prices, the Saudis have been selling their crude far below the prices charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Another Oil Price Stunner | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

If Congress provides the needed funding, the probe will be carried into earth orbit by the space shuttle in the summer of 1985. Boosted by a conventional rocket, it will fly off toward the comet, gradually accelerated by its cluster of six or eight small ion engines, during the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tailing a Comet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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