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...going to be easy. The controversial Anglo-Irish accord, signed two weeks ago by Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and Garret FitzGerald, gave the Dublin government a limited voice in the affairs of the British province of Northern Ireland for the first time. Last week, though the agreement had received solid support in both the British and Irish parliaments, it was harshly attacked by extremists on both sides...
...first woman ever to head one of the nation's blue-ribbon law schools. "She's a woman for all sea-sons," proclaimed Columbia President Michael Severn, calling her appointment "just one facet of an extraordinarily gifted human being." And in a pointed comment he added, "She is too solid a choice to allow her being a woman to count. I wanted the best possible person...
Murphy Jones (James Garner) is a prosperous widower who runs the nearest drugstore. His marble soda fountain and his car, a 1927 Studebaker, express his commitment to solid, old-fashioned workmanship, while the antinuke sticker on the Studi's windshield shows that he too is up-to-date on matters of faith and morals...
...Nils Lundgren, vice president of Stockholm's Pkbanken, believes that West European countries are slowly creating conditions for steady, solid growth. Said Lundgren: "We are more inflation-proof now during the business upswings." Imports are cheaper, wage increases are modest, and governments are reducing budget deficits. At the same time, Lundgren found that Europeans, on the political left as well as the right, have learned to accept the need for free-market solutions, even if it means shutting down loss-making steel mills and shipyards. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor-of economics at the University of Paris Nord, also noted...
...occasional wrinkle, an odd hitch in these tidy instructions pops up in the form of a fierce local sirocco that hurls itself at cyclonic force across the plains of eastern Colorado. It moves as a solid wall of dust, opaque and hard on the nerves of any ill-informed motorist it happens to catch. All a fool can do in these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming...