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...formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential critics instead of fighting them so hard...
...number of students and professors (average salary: $23,100) bitterly resented the bundles of money strewn in Fairbanks' path. The school is currently fighting a budget-saving move by the state legislature that would cut back enrollment, slice several millions from the university budget and lop 202 members from the faculty. Even if the plan is modified, Colorado will face some austerity measures-except in the stadium. Said Jeff Morgan, editor of the Colorado Daily, which covers student affairs: "The priorities are way off, but it shows where the interests lie in the state of Colorado...
More blacks are attending college now than ever, 1.1 million, or more than triple the number in 1966. One out of nine college students in the U.S. is black, double the level in 1966 and nearly the same as the proportion of blacks in the U.S. population as a whole. In families with incomes from $10,000 to $15,000, a higher percentage of blacks (21%) goes to college nowadays than whites...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Austin (42,000 students, 992 black). At the largest university in the South the number of black students has tripled since 1972, but it remains relatively small, and only 20 blacks serve on the 1,800-member faculty. "This university simply isn't interested in black affairs," laments John Warfield, 42, director of Texas' Center for African and Afro-American Studies. That seems to apply to blacks themselves. Explains Warfield: "Some black parents are saying to their kids, 'Stay away from that black stuff at school...
...dialogue is full of howlers, including a number of lines inexplicably built around meat imagery. At times Voices sounds like the first half of the Larry Gel bart-Sheldon Keller satirical script for Movie Movie-played straight...