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Money devoted to the social sciences will hold constant at about $200 million, but significantly below the fiscal year 1981 total Coddington, however insisted the slight cuts were essentially a positive sign. "The significant thing is not the numbers," he said. "The Administration has turned around from its previous rehitoric" and decided that the federal government should provide funding for "soft" or social science research...
...large carpet they had removed from an abandoned home. In the river was the wreckage of two Soviet helicopters that had been shot down earlier in the fighting. From time to time, the Soviets fired machine guns at the hillside. But they did little more than leave a slight ringing in the guerrillas' ears...
...slight frown passes quickly as he describes the detail on an exactreplica of an 15th century English plaster ceiling in the Hyde Room, which houses a collection emphasizing the work of the Samuel Johnson. James Boswell circle. Books here and elsewhere will stand as Bond's permanent legacy-the brilliant acquisition he has made for Harvard...
There were a few tentative signs last week that the recession might be coming to a close. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige predicted that the gross national product would actually show a slight rise in the second quarter. It had declined at an annual rate of about 4% during the previous six months. The Commerce Department reported that housing starts surged 22.3% in May, the biggest jump since June...
...temperature hovers in the 30s, and at night the frost shades the windows of the few white wooden houses. When the wind doesn't roar, it howls in the rolling hills. Seagulls loop and cry above the harbor. If this were a normal season, there would be the slight scent of peat in the air, and the residents of the settlement would be going about the business of putting the rams out to the ewes. There are late potatoes and winter cabbage in the family vegetable gardens. The sheep dogs would either be working or be still...