Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...articles on why divestment from South Africa is a counter-productive gesture, but they have never elicited any response. The divestment movement here is hardly concerned with the effectiveness of their proposal, and base their appeals solely on the crimes of apartheid. One must only look at the heightened pace of divestment since the imposition of the state of emergency to see that it is the repugnance of the Pretoria regime, not the effectiveness of divestment, that is their trump card. In this light, it is confusing to examine the Soviet Union, because it shows that the issue...
...French announcement and the resulting furor underscore the frenetic pace of AIDS research. At the NIH in Bethesda, Md., calls come in virtually every day from drug manufacturers claiming to have a new treatment for the disease. About half a dozen drugs are currently under serious study. Several, including ribavirin, suramin and one called compound S, have shown promise in blocking the replication of the AIDS virus. But few, if any, have demonstrated the potential to rebuild the devastated immune systems of AIDS patients...
John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...
...Capitol Hill last week to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the outlook for the Philippines and President Ferdinand Marcos. Their forecast: stormy weather ahead for both. Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz warned that the Philippines was heading toward "civil war on a massive scale." The pace of economic, political and military reform, added Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, was "insufficient to arrest the growth of the (Communist) insurgency." The country could reach a "strategic stalemate" in as little as three years...
...Trow, maintenance of the forest for silviculture requires much more. "The Harvard figure is very low. The endowment stood at $1.2 million in 1950, and now it's only at $2.5 million [while the rest of Harvard's endowment has grown more than 800 percent]. It has not kept pace with the market, and it appears that Harvard has used some of that money for other purposes,' Trow said...