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Sure enough, while Dartmouth did give number-three New Hampshire a scare, running up a 14-0 first quarter lead, the Big Green had to hold on for a 21-21 tie to be the only Ivy team not to lose in action last week...
...frightful fairy tale: if they couldn't find the wisdom and courage to reduce spending and raise revenue themselves, a crude wrecking ball would knock many billions from government programs. The threat of an indiscriminate "sequester" of funds, the story went, would be so politically devastating as to scare the government into facing its fiscal responsibilities. That fantasy, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act five years ago, projected a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1. But the brutal fact is this: the nation will face a deficit of about $200 billion even...
Indeed, if even the more casual socials set graduate students to worrying, some of the more traditional departments really scare the faint of heart...
...solution he proposes is ill defined but highly unsettling nonetheless: the "well-managed proliferation" of nuclear weapons. Perhaps, he suggests, when some latter-day archduke is assassinated on a bridge in Sarajevo, there will be enough fingers on enough nuclear triggers to scare everyone into salutary paralysis. Among the states that should get the Bomb, he says, is a unified Germany. That prospect appeals to few Germans and virtually no one else. A Germany armed with nuclear weapons would, almost unavoidably, raise the atavistic specter of militarism that would be threatening to neighboring states...
...suitor for Eastern's planes and gates is Northwest Airlines, whose chairman, Alfred Checchi, is a friend of Shugrue's. Will the indictment frighten him off? Not likely. "The die is cast. Eastern has a limited life," says analyst Robert McAdoo. "The indictment may even scare creditors enough to enable a company like Northwest to cut a sweeter deal." Though Eastern's absorption by a rival would increase airline concentration and reduce competition further, some travelers seem untroubled. Says Christopher Witkowski, director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project, a group formed by Ralph Nader: "If the allegations are borne...