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This spring the two sororities will join together to create Harvard's first "Panhellenic Council," a governing body for the Greek system. Many sorority officers predict that the chapters will continue to grow over the next few years--even though the University refuses to recognize them...
Ralph Crosby, Northrop vice president for the B-2, says CBO's historical analysis can't predict the cost of the next planes because ``we now have a firm, fixed-price offer'' pending at the Pentagon. ``It's based on lean production techniques,'' Crosby says. The 11,000 people working on the first B-2s, for example, would be trimmed to about 3,600 for the second...
Twenty years ago, that seemed to be changing. Breakthroughs in scientific understanding of plate tectonics--the incessant shifting of continent-size hunks of the earth's crust--spurred hope that major upheavals could be predicted. In Japan polls showed that 50% or more of the public thought they could be. Tokyo even established an Earthquake Assessment Committee of six eminent seismologists to advise the Prime Minister when he ought to issue a public earthquake warning. But in 17 years no such warning has ever been issued, and many experts think the $100 million a year Japan devotes to trying...
...them against the catastrophic thrashing. The nation invested heavily in quake research, quakeproof engineering, quake relief. When Japanese saw the damage done in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1994, they smiled to themselves and thought, We would have fared far better. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins...
...attempt to hide from the consequences of their attack on CPB, Republicans predict that CPB's most popular programs will be bought up by the networks and will flourish in the private sector...