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...staff notes only cursorily, we owe Richard Nixon the detente of the '70s, which made the world a safer place in which to live and paved the way for a series of arms-reduction treaties between the United States and the former Soviet Union. We owe him relations with China, along with associated economic benefits to both nations and the increased leverage America now wields with China. Finally, we owe Nixon credit for opening the doors to the Camp David accords of 1979, which created peace between Israel and Egypt...
...safer city will draw more and better-qualified students. The "yield rate," the number of students who accept Yale's offer of admission may slowly reverse its precipitous decline of the last decade. Top-notch academics will also be more likely to accept positions at a university in a more vibrant city. Their spouses will be able to find work more easily...
...want people to attend to what you'resaying, you have to appeal to their emotions, notjust their intellect," says DeVore. "Humor hasclassically been one of the safer emotions...
Which wouldn't much matter if the newcomers would sit patiently for 10 or 20 years. Over long periods, stocks will almost surely outperform safer investments. But I know these people. Some will rush for the door the minute they see the value of their portfolio fall. They sold last week. The rest will hang on, knowing a dip is just a dip, a sigh is just a sigh -- but they will grow increasingly uncomfortable as the dip begins to look like a trough. At that point, they will become a little angry with themselves for ever having got into...
...plants. Looking for ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce any detectable levels of dioxin. Most of the paper in this magazine is now produced that way. We have asked our other suppliers to convert to this safer bleaching method. They are in the process of doing so. Says Refkin: "These issues are extremely important to us. We care about our impact on the environment...