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Europe's fears are so ripe for exploitation by the Soviets that the Kremlin is naturally suspected of financing some of Western Europe's peace groups. That belief seemed to be confirmed earlier this month when a minor...
...times, Coppinger has had to alleviate minor tension between the players and the coaching staff. "He's gone to bat a couple of times for players," defensive lineman Dave Sauve says. Azelby noted one of those occasions, recalling a time earlier this season when defensive co-ordinator George Clements got a little angry with some members of the team for leaving some defensive scouting reports--apparently unread--behind after a meeting...
...MINOR LEGEND enshrouds the birth of what has come to be known as "supply-side economics"; few subjects have proven more reliable sources of popular folklore than the discovery of great scientific laws, and so it befits the hyperseriousness of the apostles of this creed to spread the influence of their theories. Joining the tales of Archimedes jumping up and down in his bathtub yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur...
Post-flight inspections of the thermal protection system, a blanket of 31,000 silica tiles which protects the 122-foot long orbiter from the heat of reentry, revealed only minor damage and no missing tiles, White said. The tiles had been a problem on Columbia's first flight in April, and were a source of many of the delays that set the $10-billion shuttle project more than three years behind schedule...
When the constitution draft for the proposed Undergraduate Council was completed last month, members of the committee that drew up the document said they were confident it would sail through all necessary channels with only minor changes and would be implemented by next semester...