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...filling the job. As an economist, he should be able to maintain the tight-fisted control Rosovsky kept on the budget deficits, which have largely subsided since swelling up to several million dollars in the early 1970s. And Spence's aptitude for computers should serve the Faculty in good stead, as it capitalized on the technology boom that is revolutionizing certain aspects of college education. In his capacity as chairman of the Economics Department. Spence has shown a grasp for the problems of graduate students, who many believe are owed an increase in attention over the next few years...
...adventure had prejudiced beginnings. Responding to complaints from hunters, his employers hoped he would prove wolves, whose bad reputation in lore and legend ever precedes them, were responsible for the decimation of the caribou herds of the tundra and offer a justification for lupine slaughter. Mowat found, in stead, that man was the predator, that the wolves, besides being agreeable and intelligent in their domestic ways, performed an invaluable Darwinian function in selecting out the unfit deer. All this Ballard shows in images of great but distinctly unsentimental beauty, stressing the contrast between the blundering ways...
...still nags: What business can be transacted at a summit? Both leaderships have disclaimed any interest at all in a getting-to-know-you session. And they are right to do so. The combination of Reagan's extraordinary charm and political street smarts, which stands him in good stead with allied leaders and helps compensate for his relative innocence in world affairs, would neither interest nor impress Andropov. Personality would not be on the agenda...
Through the discipline of studies, the experimentation of relation ships and the ardency of radical feminism I had been searching for an "answer" --a sense of purpose and direction which would make it possible to wake up each morning feeling strong and optimistic in stead of inadequate and terrified. But immersing myself in academics love and ideology had not led me to the grail My Korean parents waxed Confucian whenever I cried on the phone to them. imploring me to look "within" for the answer. But for some reason whether it was because I had spent too many years watching...
...have to convince the King that this hospital will work. If the prince recovers, then it will put us in good stead...