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Drawing on years of experience in monitoring the decline of Brezhnev, Kremlin watchers were quick to pick up telltale clues that something might be amiss with Andropov. During his first four months in office, the onetime KGB chief has lost weight. He has kept to a rigorous daily schedule, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Telltale Clues | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Re TIME'S commentary on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle: the Bradley was designed to give the U.S. infantry offensive fighting capabilities in addition to protecting mobility. Its 25-mm gun is not "highly inaccurate" but exceeds rigorous Army standards in all tests to date. The sticker price is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 28, 1983 | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Most educators believe that Asian scholastic achievement has more to do with nurture than nature. They argue that Asian immigrants are accustomed to a more rigorous schedule; the Japanese, for instance, attend school 225 days instead of a typical U.S. schedule of 180. Many Asian-American children have well-educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Confucian Work Ethic | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Spring vacation may represent a brief respite from studies, but it won't mean a break in a rigorous practice and game schedule for members of the men's and women's lacrosse and crew teams and the men's baseball squad.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Alternative to the Beach: Some Teams Sweat on Campus | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

Jim Adelstein '84, a student member of the committee, said yesterday the curriculum should not be considered easy because of the lack of distribution requirements. "This is an unfair and unjust assumption. Brown is one of the most rigorous things. I have ever been through he said, adding. "Freedom is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curriculum Review at Brown Opposes Stiffer Requirements | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

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