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...well-executed, confident brand of hockey that Harvard demonstrated in this weekend's Maine invasion, as well as last weekend's New York sweep of RIT and Cornell, will stand the icewomen in good stead if they can carry that momentum into Wednesday's war with the Big Green...
...sixties... were influential in turning CCA attention to social policy stead of just government." --Former CCA President Frederick C. Levy dominated city council debate and the CCA platform for several years. The CCA-supported policy which regulates rent in low- and moderate-income city housing, was finally passed into law in 1969, but the liberal party lost substantial support in the process...
...this does not mean that China is about to embrace capitalism full tilt. Deng and his collaborators have stretched Marxism as it has not been stretched before, but they have yet to define the political and economic structure they seek in its stead. "The Chinese are not sure where they are going," says a Western economist who has served as a consultant in Peking. "There seems to be no overall plan." Deng's goal, pragmatic to the core, is to pursue whatever makes China strong...
...enough, however, to calm a sense of disquiet in Brazilian political circles. Neves fell ill the night before he was scheduled to take the oath of office as Brazil's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule; his Vice President had to be sworn in in his stead. Would Neves ever take power? And what about the health of the government during his prolonged absence...
...though difficult to measure with precision, appears to be widening. In 1978 Western Europe had a $500 million trade surplus in such high-technology exports as computers, digital telecommunications systems, robotics and computer-controlled industrial machinery. Two years later the surplus had evaporated; in its stead was a $5 billion shortfall. By 1982 the high-tech trade deficit had doubled to $10 billion, with U.S. and Japanese exports to Western Europe growing rapidly. In the crucial field of electronic microprocessing, the industry on which much of this new revolution rests, Europeans hold only 10% of the world market. Together...