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When ball careemed off the back board, slammed into the front of the rim, and then dropped cleanly through the twines, the crowd could not restrain itself. Even the Merrimackians leapt to their feet and bellowed their admiration for this titan from the wheat belt. Nancy catapulted from her seat to give the conqueror a well-deserved victory embrace...
...quite the detached Chairman of the Board of popular myth, or so his aides assert. They insist that he studies briefing papers longer and in more detail than the public ever suspects. The President can be fiercely decisive on matters that involve his ideological principles. The troika had to restrain him last August from announcing his decision to fire the striking air-traffic controllers until the strike had actually begun. Reagan has even been known to overrule a unanimous troika opinion on issues about which he feels deeply. The three all thought last summer that the Administration should seek sizable...
Governor William Milliken is seeking to restrain social programs, public sector salaries and the cost to business of unemployment and workers' compensation. For the longer run, Michigan Director of Commerce Norton Berman is pursuing longstanding efforts to diversify the state's economy. Some of his aims involve futuristic technology industries, such as the construction of industrial robots, computer-aided manufacturing and genetic engineering. Berman also hopes to exploit the state's natural resources of wood and water. He claims enthusiastically that Michigan's borders embrace or touch on 20% of the nation's fresh water...
...East peace talks. Roger D. Fisher '43 ran into a little trouble. The Williston Professor of Law and selfstyled guru of negotiation strategy is the man most frequently called upon to moderate campus debates, thanks to a reputation for cool-headedness. But this time, even Fisher couldn't restrain Palestinian and Israeli panelists from loudly interrupting and insulting one another. Nor could his repeated calls for order stop audience members from interrupting speakers at will. Towards the debate's end, one of Fisher's Law School colleagues rose from his back-row seat and denounced a Palestinian panelist...
...Humanities" serves as both a chastisement of humanities faculties for allowing standards to slip, and a series of recommendations for coping with economic pressures. He calls for organization of interdisciplinary programs which place language in a historical, philosophical or sociological context--"Let the curriculum follow the mind, not restrain it." Clearly Giamatti feels most comfortable when discussing his own field (before assuming Yale's presidency in 1978, he was Whitney professor of English and comparative literature...