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...they will not intrude into the "buffer" days. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that these professors will take over this "buffer period". Consider Dean Ozment's admonition that faculty will not dictate to faculty how to run classes. In essence, the CUE is planning a tactical retreat doomed to failure...
TIME's board expects that the trade deficit will at least halt its runaway growth and possibly retreat a bit by the end of 1986. The deficit hit a record $148.5 billion during 1985, largely because an overly strong dollar made foreign goods cheap in the U.S. and American exports too expensive in other countries. But last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace...
...Argentine military, Contras have bombed ports, bridges, and petroleum tanks. But in spite of these measures, they have not captured a single town in the country. Their two-year-old front along Nicaragua's Southern border has collapsed, and most of the 15,000 guerillas have scattered in retreat...
...rebut the accusations and called them a plot to "destroy us." But he does live well, even as he pleads poverty on the air and lays off some 500 employees (as he did weeks ago). He tools around in a Mercedes, and he and Tammy have a $449,000 retreat in Palm Springs...
...lessons. There are people like the historical Huey and the fictional Pete who wear their amorality glamorously, who have the ability to move the practice of politics out of smoke-filled rooms and into the chambers of the yearning human heart. Conventional political morality, to which both these films retreat in good-hearted confusion, is inadequate to deal with such creatures. Art conceivably is. But today, media far more devious than a radio mike await the next Huey Long. To take the measure of his threat, art will have to be shrewder and more sensitive than either of these movies...