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...first comprehensive comparative study of U.S. doctoral programs conducted in the past 12 years showed the Harvard graduate faculty members rank first in the nation in Classics, Philosophy and Spanish. A later portion of the survey, re- after Dr. John R. Darsee had admitted to falsifying research results in the hospital's Cardiac Research...
...criticisms, Thatcher has been surging ahead in surveys that rank the rival party leaders by preference as "the best Prime Minister": she scores 48%, vs. 22% for Steel, 16% for Foot and 7% for Jenkins. Much of this, another poll notes, stems from the fact that Britons are preparing to vote for negative rather than positive reasons, against Foot rather than for Thatcher. Certainly one of her biggest allies is Labor's weakness...
...bankers' blitz produced an alliance of rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats, who defied warnings by President Reagan. House Speaker Tip O'Neill and other House leaders that repeal would encourage tax evasion and hike deficits. Predicted New York's Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee: "Many who vote for repeal will beat their breasts and bray against deficits...
...attempting to enlist community, faculty and student support--and by involving rank and file workers in collective bargaining--Bozzotto and his union have displayed a creative and democratic approach to the problem of maintaining workers' incomes and employment in a time of layoffs and labour wage concessions. They have chosen to go down a rather risky road in presenting Harvard--an employer that has easy recourse to non-union help--with such a militantly determined bargaining stance. The threat of a strike, and the attendant possibility that the University might call in non-union workers, make student support...
...shares with his friend Steven Spielberg (E.T.) the title "Mr. Blockbuster." Besides Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, which rank No. 2 and No. 3 in receipts, he drew up the plot of and produced No. 5, Raiders of the Lost Ark. In addition, an earlier film, American Graffiti (1973), loosely modeled on his own adolescence in Modesto, Calif., ranks as one of the most profitable films in Hollywood history. It cost Universal Pictures only $780,000 to produce, but it has already returned $145 million worldwide...