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Jimmy Carter rightly remembers the Camp David accords as the crowning achievement of his presidency, and he would like to ensure that they do not come to naught. In his new book, The Blood of Abraham, to be published next week by Houghton Mifflin, Carter traces the history of Middle East conflicts from biblical times and implores the Reagan Administration to make a more strenuous effort to resolve them...
...mostly for naught. Pounded almost daily by Icahn's newspaper ads, Phillips shareholders became convinced that they were being shortchanged. In a vote last month on the plan to restructure the company's finances, they rejected the deal that Phillips management had struck with Pickens. Icahn was thus able to pursue his bid for the company...
...which, of course, will be for naught if A&E cannot prove that arts on cable is a viable business. The channel charges a small fee to cable systems that carry it but hopes to earn most of its revenue from advertising. Though progress has been slow, 24 national advertisers have signed up thus far, and network executives predict that the channel will be in the black by 1986. "We have minded our knitting," says Davatzes. "We finished our first year ahead of our business plan." For the last best hope of culture on cable, that is no mean feat...
...most devastating problems is the time and anxiety placed on choosing a House. This is for naught--students placed in North House become happy with what they have," Professor Hastings says...
Northeastern's attempt to land the Institute has not gone all for naught, however, said Weiss. The university has developed a good relationship with the Department of Defense which will create "very positive spinoff's" when the school makes bids for future contracts in the area of software engineering...