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...Kuwaitis face a major problem in defending their area of the gulf: the Kuwaiti military is as small and eclectic as the country itself. Its scant force of 12,500 untested men is unlikely to be of much help in defending Kuwait's borders if the Iraqi defense crumbles before Iran's long-promised land invasion. In order to bolster their collection of French Mirage jets, British tanks and American antiaircraft missiles, the Kuwaitis recently signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with the French and the British to upgrade their defenses. When the U.S. balked last...
...Lawrence, a syndicated columnist, it evolved into its present format after World War II. In contrast to TIME (U.S. circ. 4.6 million) and Newsweek (U.S. circ. 3 million), U.S. News downplays reportage of a week's events in favor of analysis of their impact on readers and gives scant, though increasing, attention to technology, culture and lifestyles...
...James Baker, now White House Chief of Staff, was virtually cut out of the action: he was paid a scant $464 for "telephone reimbursement...
Concern about the University's treatment of harassment intensified a month later when, in late October, the results of a University-wide sexual harassment survey showed that more than one-third of campus females felt they had experienced some form of sexual harassment. Of that number, however, a scant 15 percent discussed the matter with a University official and virtually none filed formal complaints. Many respondents cited ignorance of grievance procedures or a perceived lack of University concern as reasons for not filing complaints against their harassers...
...several occasions, Graves said he risked losing his office on matters of principle. "The college president has very little real authority," he concluded, "but he has all he needs." Ultimately, however, scant the "real" authority presidents exercise, they possess more prominence and more authority than any single person on campus...