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While Harvard may be the model for other newly-evolving residential systems, it has not become stagnant. Administrators point to the $50 million House renovation plan that began in 1981 as the University's largest ever financial commitment to the improvement of residential life. Besides renovations for general up-keep, the University has made special additions to some of the houses--such as a weight room in Mather House, and a Q-RAC nautilus...
...should have come as no surprise to Americans that Gary Hart overtook Walter Mondale in the early primaries [NATION, March 12]. Many people see Hart as a breath of fresh air in a country that is politically stagnant. Mondale comes across as a politician who helped give away the Panama Canal, allowed American hostages to remain captive in Iran, and used our Olympic athletes as a political tool...
...jumped in value from $40 to $80 a share, for a total gain of more than $6 billion. Says Donald Drapkin, a merger specialist with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a leading New York City law firm: "Pickens created real value for Gulf shareholders in a stock that was stagnant before he arrived on the scene...
With crude prices stagnant, the market value of energy firms is weak and some companies are selling for less than the worth of their assets. At the same time, oil executives are discovering that it is often cheaper to buy new reserves than to explore for them. In Alaska's promising Mukluk field, for instance, major oil companies have put an estimated $1.7 billion into exploration, but have so far turned up only a $140 million dry hole...
...four gave a generally pessimistic over view of the Soviet government's internal situation, describing a country wracked by corruption and a stagnant economy...