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...community through long, logical and legal treatises devoid of personal content. Faculty meetings allow little opportunity for open debate. Instead, projects are advanced behind the scenes, opposition quelled quietly. Change is measured in generations rather than months. Because initiatives rarely involve the input of the community, new projects must proceed ever so slowly to avoid the embarrassment of discontent or failure. For his 15 years in office, Bok has sought to improve the quality of teaching, referring to that goal constantly. Yet his concern has resulted only in speeches and papers designed to change "attitudes" rather than change standards...
...scene in which Michael J. Fox's character, who has traveled back in time, walks past a 1950s-era filling station and is flabbergasted to see four cheery attendants in neatly pressed coveralls. Like a pit crew at the Indianapolis 500, they dash up to a car and proceed to fill the gas tank, check the oil, clean the windows and polish the chrome...
Orange will probably fade from the repertory, and Martins, now 40, will proceed to the next work in progress. "I have to feed the dancers material and challenges, or the talent atrophies," he says. "We have more talent under this roof now than I have seen in my time here...
...with Iran were a straightforward arms-for- hostages swap. Reagan's repeated claim that the transactions were an overture to moderate factions in the Iranian government was no more than a rationale concocted by CIA Director William Casey. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North was instrumental in persuading the President to proceed; North's boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, was aware that Iran arms profits were being diverted to Nicaraguan contras. Casey, too, knew of the diversion weeks before he has claimed he was told. Yet Ronald Reagan seemed "surprised" to learn last November of the contra connection...
Although the airlines must pay for installing TCAS II, they support Engen's decision to proceed. Many pilots, however, would prefer to wait for more advanced technology. TCAS II can tell a plane to go up or down to get out of danger, but not whether to swerve left or right, the escape maneuver considered safer by pilots. That will come in the FAA's TCAS III system, which is at least two years off, and perhaps as many as five. But, says Engen, "wouldn't you rather go down or up, and miss, rather than sit around...