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...despite the perceived emergency, the report concludes that Cornell "can become virtually overnight a major force in affirmative action policy formation and execution in higher education...
Marines were not allowed to leave the embassy compound unless accompanied by another American, and they could not stay out overnight. But Soviet drivers claim they often took Marines to parties at foreign compounds and brought them back as late as 6 a.m. Americans visiting the embassy recall being asked by Marines to escort them past the entrance. One American woman said she twice drove a Marine to visit what he called his "Finnish girlfriend." But, she said, "the place was some sort of Soviet institute, so I suspect the girlfriend was Russian." Another way for the Marines...
...Administration figures, while only 30% of the pavement on urban Interstates was in good or very good condition in 1982, that figure had risen to 35% in 1985. "The rate of deterioration has been halted," says Joseph Rhodes, special assistant to the FHA administrator. "These conditions didn't arise overnight and they won't be corrected overnight...
...gave a thought to his financial security. Then came the day when, as Chuck describes it, "I wrote out a check for $1000 to my coke dealer, but I forgot to draw a line after the words 'One thousand,' The slimeball just added the words 'million trillion dollars,' and overnight I was ruined...
...bluntly: "Pollard is a criminal found guilty in our system of justice, it's as simple as that. If it was perceived in America that we had come to the defense of Pollard because he's a Jew, our credibility as a Jewish community would be down to zero overnight, and Israel would be the loser." In Washington, the staunchly pro-Israel New Republic called the Jerusalem government's behavior in the Pollard affair "morally unworthy and politically stupid," adding, "If the smart-asses in the corridors of Israeli power think, as one commentator recently put it, that Israel...