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...some-time. It will be her first foray to the brave new world of California, where for weeks the glitterati have been jockeying for gilded invitations. Yes, she is pleased to get out of dreary, drizzly London and into the sunshine, but the royal purpose remains the same: to strengthen ties among friends and show her subjects that the Crown is not merely an abstract symbol, but a kind, imperturbable and tireless Gal whose role is to serve rather than rule...
...basic assumption behind the resolution is that a college student has the right to break a federal law and deny and commitments or duties to the nation but that the government of this nation has no right to deny the student eligibility for a privileged program originally designed to strengthen our nation. In other words, a student should be allowed to enjoy the fruits of a well-intentioned federal program despite his deliberate criminal action. This is absurd...
...funding for the library. "I shifted the emphasis to salaries and keeping as many people as I could," he says of his general philosophy. Indeed, under Funderburk, no one on the teaching staff has been laid off because of a lack of money. Funderburk claims that his efforts to strengthen the agriculture and engineering programs are simply a response to growing interest in those fields...
Trying to strengthen her government, Mrs. Gandhi two weeks ago asked all 60 members of her Council of Ministers to submit resignations. She fired only seven ministers and named a dozen new ones, prompting criticism that she lacked the nerve to undertake a wholesale housecleaning. Luckily for Mrs. Gandhi, the opposition parties are at least as disorganized as her Congress Party; no candidate has emerged as a serious rival for 1985, and her personal popularity remains high...
Both Bok and Vellucci said last night that the meeting was a way to strengthen communication between the city and the University. However, Vellucci--who served as host--seemed to have more of an agenda to present to Bok than vice versa...