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...College makes it too easy on us. True, a few weeks before classes begin, we do receive a shrink-wrapped Courses of Instruction catalog...
RAILROADS. The U.S. had some 30 large railroads during the 1960s, but today the number has dwindled to a dozen. It is likely to shrink further if Conrail and Norfolk Southern go ahead with a deal and Burlington Northern completes its $2.4 billion acquisition of Santa Fe Pacific. That deal, announced last month, would create the largest U.S. railroad. The force behind such consolidations is the growing strength of a railroad industry that for years watched truckers drive off with its business. The railroads have cut their payrolls nearly one-quarter since 1987, which helped lower costs and reduce freight...
...interview with TIME last week, Woolsey vowed to shrink intelligence spending "prudently," but complained that Congress has doubled the Administration's proposed cuts, from $7 billion to $14 billion, through 1997. During the 1990s, the cuts will slice 1 of every 4 positions from the U.S. intelligence payroll. "The intelligence community and the CIA will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded...
Still, we shrink from the obvious inference: for a woman, home is, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place to be. Her worst enemies and potential killers are not strangers but lovers, husbands and those who claimed to love her once. Similarly, for every child like Polly Klaas who is killed by a deranged criminal on parole, dozens are abused and murdered by their own relatives. Home is all too often where the small and weak fear to lie down and shut their eyes...
Umpires like Sultan Gangji serve as judge, jury and shrink...