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Rudenstine also pointed to the success of the office of Government. Community and Public Affairs in working with Congress to stave off cuts in student aid and research funding...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Rudenstine Looks Back | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...anxious advocates for the poor and elderly fight to stave off budget cuts, the Pentagon seems immune. 0ne would never know it, however, from the rhetoric wielded on behalf of Pentagon spending. "You couldn't fight Desert Storm today," House Speaker Newt Gingrich told TIME, despite Pentagon assertions that the U.S. military is now primed to fight two such wars at once. "We're going to get people killed if we downsize much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY THE PENTAGON GETS A FREE RIDE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident on May 27, underwent risky, all-day surgery today in Virginia to stave off further damage to his spinal cord. The operation, which has triggered heart attacks in some patients, was expected to allow Reeve to be propped up in bed, to breathe more easily and to fight off recurrences of pneumonia. But the 42-year-old actor will likely remain on a respirator for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REEVE UNDERGOES SURGERY | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...service on the board, shortly after he had, as interim chairman, deferred all fees for other directors. Meanwhile, the board met by phone on Friday and is likely to continue to meet as long and as often as it takes to find a new chairman and to stave off the financial collapse of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WRECK OF MORRISON KNUDSEN | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...level of violence in neighboring Rwanda, where Hutu death squads slaughtered half a million Tutsis. "Whereas Rwanda had a government and military that were both Hutu and were going after the Tutsi minority, Burundi has more of a balance of power," Burton says. "Everybody's hoping they can they stave this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXODUS FROM BURUNDI | 3/31/1995 | See Source »

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