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With the victory, the Crimson--who swept Penn and Princeton just prior to the exam break--nabbed back-to-back Ivy weekend sweeps for the first time ever...
That may have to be a game plan worthy of a Super Bowl champion. For more than a decade, Eastern has failed to come to grips with the changing realities of the airline industry. Even prior to 1978, when U.S. carriers were still regulated and fares were set by a benevolent Civil Aeronautics Board, Eastern often slipped into the red, and it barely avoided bankruptcy in 1975. Says Wayne Yeoman, Eastern's senior vice president for finance: "It took a lot of skill and cunning to lose money in a regulated environment...
ENTERPRISE, THEN Challenger. This isn't the first time Art has beaten Life to the pages of Newsweek; remember The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island. And it won't be the last. In the years prior to this week's tragedy, NASA had been straining its PR muscles, turning a rocket-powered bronco ride into what had begun to seem like a drive in the country. There had been so many shuttle flights flashing across our skies and our screens; they had become the norm, not the extraordinary exception...
Similarly lacking in tasteful bravado were his two most recent cinematic exploits, the dull-edged Blade Runner and the utterly forgetable Deal of the Century. Thus, prior to the release of his latest chef d'oeuvre, the largely critically acclaimed Twice in a Lifetime, one had to wonder whether or not Yorkin had a chance of making it in the eighties...
...been determined at the time that the contract involved the institution, two provisions in it would have been at variance with University policies with respect to institutional contracts. One is a standard provision granting the CIA the right to review and approve the written output prior to publication. The second provision is a stipulation that the CIA will not be disclosed as a source of research support in subsequent published work. The first provision was qualified in a contract amendment indicating that because "the Government will not provide classified material for use in completing the research...[it] does not anticipate...