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Robert E. Bunselmeyer, assistant dean of the graduate school at Yale, said yesterday the slight increase in black applications to Yale--from 135 to 145 or 150--doesn't concern me as much as offers of admission. We can get anywhere from ten to fifty offers of admission from this number...
...critics of the Concorde have charged it would reduce the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere that protects the earth from ultraviolet rays, thereby increasing the incidence of nonfatal skin cancer. Coleman judged that the stratospheric impact of the 16 months of test flights would be "minuscule," and the slight risk of causing additional cases of the disease-which he called "speculation"-was not enough to reject landing rights for the Concorde...
Despite its gains on the battlefield, there is still a slight hope that Agostinho Neto's Luanda government might consider some sort of political settlement with UNITA before long. The reasoning...
Lengthier dissertations by the Schecters range in subject matter from genetics to abstract art to the plight of Soviet Jews. Sometimes these digressions are too wide, the narrative too rambling. Despite the authors' obvious care to avoid repetition, the book could have used a slight pruning. But good writing is clearly a family trait, as are the zest, humor and sensitivity that make An American Family this young year's best-informed and most unusual travel book...
...Citibank who are inspired by his drive and vision, which have made the bank among the most envied in the world. The hates spring from Wriston's sharp tongue, which lashes at almost everyone in sight. Even one of his admirers formerly at Citibank says, with only slight exaggeration: "He is arrogant, flip and runs the place with a needle. Every comment is a wise-ass remark...