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Mann says he plans to operate the assembly lineat a modest level despite the cancellation."Basically, we're going to follow through withproving out the design and assembly...
Radcliffe blossomed from these modest beginnings, and over the 114 years, Radcliffe women increasingly became an integral part of Harvard University. In 1943, many Harvard classes began to admit women. In 1963, Radcliffe women were granted official Harvard degrees. And in 1971, Harvard took control of Radcliffe housing, making the entire system coeducational...
Administration officials quickly tried to dampen the rising rebellion. Senior economic advisers led a hushed but urgent campaign to prevent the influential Business Roundtable from endorsing a more modest alternative to the President's 1,300-page plan. White House economics chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll...
...idea that such a modest curriculum would actually untangle the web of misfortune and bad habits leading to abandonment might seem implausible were it not for the program's success rate. Of 200 women who have attended since the Washington program's inception, not one has abandoned her child. As Angela Holland testifies, "They taught me how to get my life back together again...
Today's Russian specialists are too modest to claim an expertise Bohlen knew is impossible, but that hasn't stopped the Clinton Administration from crafting a Russia-centric foreign policy that seriously shortchanges other vital interests. To Secretary of State Warren Christopher, it's all perfectly clear: "Helping democracy prevail in Russia," he says, "remains the wisest and least expensive investment that we can make in American security." At the same time, however, almost everyone involved with America's Russia policy, including Christopher, admits the West can affect events there only at the margin. That being so, one would expect...