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...mother of his two children. Professionally, he faces a continuing struggle to close the chasm between Stanford's powerful scientific-technical community and its humanities disciplines. For all his accomplishments, Kennedy is modest about his role at the university: "I can steer it a bit, but I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to." Yet all signs are that the Kennedy touch will keep the tight ship that is Stanford moving handsomely forward...
Gorbachev's ability to redirect Soviet foreign policy will thus partly depend on the success of his domestic reforms. If the drive for economic efficiency leads the Soviets to permit a greater degree of internal freedom, the pressure for foreign expansion could diminish. Though doubtful that this is in the works, Pipes concedes, "In the long run, changes domestically could lead to a change in foreign policy. The need for the party to justify itself by alleging a threat from abroad could disappear...
...bill proposed by State Rep. Charles F. Flaherty Jr. (D-Cambridge) would require the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW) to redirect a drainage pipe running from three major roadways into the Cambridge Reservoir...
...seventh grade," insists Herbert Dalton Jr., an admissions officer at Vermont's Middlebury College and an NCCP director. But what about the money for enhanced efforts? Counseling jobs have been easy targets in times of tight budgets. Still, the Dallas school board is now studying ways to redirect funds to pay for additional staff in hopes of cutting the workload from 500 students per adviser to 250. But even there, the motive is less to get kids into college than to help get them through drug and other personal crises...
Faculty members receiving industrial monies are four times as likely to keep the results of their research secret from the academic community, the survey discovered, and four times more likely to allow commercial applications of their research to redirect their projects...