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Upton denied that officials had acted improperly, saying the situation required prompt police action...
...speculation that official pressure might prompt the clubs to open their doors to women came to an abrupt end last week, with all nine of the single-sex institutions opting to continue their all-male punching policies. And that decision should soundly confirm an already obvious choice for the CCL and the College--cut the ties. Administrators are worried about the clubs because their sex discrimination might endanger federal funding, but we worry about the clubs because they are exclusive and elitist. To this end, the exclusion of women is simply a logical extension of an already discriminatory selection process...
...politically, is price reform. Until last week, consumer prices on such basic items as rice, vegetables and housing were kept artificially low through government subsidies. Now the cost of many items will be allowed to respond to market forces. The government is hoping that a rise in demand will prompt an increase in supply, so that prices that rise sharply at first will eventually be brought down again. Nonetheless, many Chinese fear that their bureaucrats, however liberal-minded, lack the experience to handle the subtleties of the free-market system. Deng has warned his countrymen that for all the success...
...suggests, is the only way at getting at the context of the matter--at the "comparative significance of this matter as against that one in the child's life." Coles writes that this "overall context needs to be understood, namely, what in a child's life may indeed prompt long and hard worry about a nuclear war, and what may make for indifference in another child...
...polluting effects, President Reagan opposes new federal regulations, saying that more study is needed. In the Ohio River Valley, where much of the pollution originates before prevailing winds carry it eastward, industry views controls as prohibitively expensive. The high-sulfur coal-mining companies there are worried that restrictions will prompt a switch to low-sulfur coals produced...