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Lindstrom says he anticipates Caltech will turn down increasing numbers of federal grants and contract in the future, with the imposition of stiffer pre-publication review requirements...
Shattuck's office will conduct a study this summer to quantify the effects, if any, of the past two year's stiffer regulations on sponsored research funding...
...dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall, favored a more detailed and demanding set of requirements. University of Southern California Law Professor William Genego, who heads an American Bar Association lawyer-competency committee, thinks that the court is letting "defendants pay for the mistakes their lawyers make." His committee will suggest some stiffer, nonbinding guidelines for attorneys at least to consider. Law Professor Gary Goodpaster of the University of California at Davis worries about applying the new rules to the two stages of death-penalty cases. "Many attorneys are capable of attacking the state's case at the guilt phase," he says...
...Balthus's landscapes achieve this unremitting gravity. When he tried to carry a picture more on quotation than on sight, he ended up with enameled parodies of Claude like Landscape ofChamprovent, 1941-43. The more he cast himself as the last conduit of classical prototypes, the stiffer and more self-satisfied his work be came, a decline most evident after he moved to the Villa Medici in 1961. The measured suppleness of Balthus's paint surface now began to ossify, acquiring a thick, chalky, fresco-like appearance. It was meant to suggest the warmth and historical patina...
...exciting to go this far," said Fish "Last year's team won, so of course the guys are disappointed But before that, we hadn't won since 1963. They came so close. It's tough But the whole idea is to challenge ourselves against much stiffer competition They should be very proud," he added...