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These three issues are typical of the pressures Harvard will continue to face in a changing educational environment. The mediocre performance of the administration will doubtlessly continue until the University casts off its fear of controversy and openness, and stops assuming that the past glories of Harvard will shield it from the tremors of change...
...best fireworks were saved for two special effects. At the end of all the singing and dancing, a scoreboard-sized Harvard 350th shield "blew up" into light, as fireworks exploded off a dark screen illuminating the logo...
However, before an agreement will be reached, Reagan must tidy up his administration, which is "internally divided" on arms issues and eager to preserve plans for a strategic defense shield, Nye said...
...Searle discontinued the Copper-7 and the Tatum-T. Defending just four Copper-7 liability suits cost the firm $1.5 million in legal fees, even though it won the cases. Sales of the Copper-7 amounted to only $11 million in 1985. A.H. Robins, the marketer of the Dalkon Shield, fared worse. After 9,450 lawsuits that cost $490 million, the pharmaceutical company still faces 6,000 legal claims and last year sought bankruptcy protections...
...summertime experiences are more excruciating than climbing into a parked car that has been broiling under the hot sun. Now growing numbers of American motorists are discovering that they can help their cars play it cool by giving them some shades: a cardboard sun shield that fits neatly inside the windshield. Sales of the $4 Auto Shade have surged from $2 million in 1985 to $6 million in just the first six months of this year...