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...weren't about to sell their ideology for a bowl of economic pottage. What we talked about was survival in the face of the common Soviet threat. On this last trip, by contrast, the present leaders wanted to talk about their econo my and what the U.S., the richest nation in the world, can do to help China, the most populous and one of the poorest...
...interview last month, Glashow indicated that Texas A&M had tentatively offered him a financial package that would equal the richest in any American university. That salary is currently earned by Texas A&M's football coach Jackie Sherrill, whose contract reportedly gives him $1.6 million in money and perquisites over seven years...
...Among the new groups is Progressive PAC (ProPAC), which will spend $150,000 in this election, most of it having gone into now abandoned negative campaigns against conservatives. Another is Democrats for the '80s (nicknamed PamPAC for Founder Pamela Harriman), which is spending $500,000. One of the richest ideological PACs is that of the National Organization for Women, which hopes to donate more than $2 million this year to candidates who support its feminist positions and who oppose Reaganomics. Says newly elected NOW President Judy Goldsmith: "We will proceed with work on defeating the right wing...
...snow fell gently in downtown Anchorage last week, 1,000 spectators and representatives of two dozen oil companies crowded into the convention area in the International Banquet House. They were there to hear bids announced for federal lease sales in the Beaufort Sea, which perhaps contains some of the richest untapped deposits of oil and gas in the U.S. The fields are believed to hold as much as 2.3 billion bbl. of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
Describing Harvard as "the oldest, richest and perhaps the most prestigious college in the nation," the guide states that Harvard "is noted for not only its extremely high academic demands but also for its impersonal nature...