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Several junior faculty members have speculated that the University was attempting to hide these problems, and have pointed to the six-month delay in the collation of the survey results...
Inspired by such cosmic wanderlust, Reagan is ready to move on from the space shuttle to what NASA calls the "next logical step": a permanent manned space station. Still on the drawing boards, the space station would house half a dozen people for three-to six-month shifts in roomy shirtsleeve comfort. Weighing some 180,000 Ibs., it would have to be erected in space like a giant Tinkertoy, using some of the techniques demonstrated by Astronauts Allen and Gardner last week. The Administration puts the space station's cost at $8 billion, a figure that may be grossly...
...study, by far the largest and most thorough of the 80-odd major surveys to take the psychic pulse of America since 1900, reports that during a given six-month period, one in five adults, or about 29 million people, suffers from mental problems. Only a fifth of those affected had recently sought professional help, mostly from general physicians rather than mental-health specialists...
...recession would reduce Government tax revenues and boost spending for such programs as unemployment insurance and food stamps. As a result, the deficit would grow worse than it already is. Chase Econometrics, a consulting firm in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., estimates that even a brief, six-month recession would increase the budget shortfall to $300 billion...
...happens, the Mellish case is not the only one currently in court. There is at least one other, which turns on a somewhat narrower set of facts. In Arizona, David Crumbaugh, a Pentecostal minister, is fighting a six-month contempt sentence and $1,000 fine for refusing to testify about what the wife of a convicted child killer told him while he counseled both during the murder trial. But Crumbaugh "got weak for a moment," as he put it, and has already signed an affidavit detailing what the wife said, thus undermining his privilege claim. Nonetheless, the National Coalition...