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Defense. Reagan has long demanded an increase in spending to strengthen both strategic and conventional military forces. Carter, who had come into office with a promise to reduce the military budget, now proposes to increase it next year by $24 billion. Both advocate higher salaries to make the all-volunteer armed forces more attractive, particularly to needed specialists who are leaving the services in alarming numbers...
...both chambers to shift considerably to the right. Many Democrats, including liberals, have tried to keep pace with the conservative tide in the electorate. In addition, some prominent liberals may be defeated. Thus the next Congress may resist new spending programs, except on defense, and be more willing to strengthen agencies like...
...implemented a new program this month to strengthen ties between academic institutions and industry...
...exception but the rule; and students lacked the "social awareness" to rally at protests and demonstrations. Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature. He gained acceptance to the narrow circle of Harvard's academic elite: the favorite student of George Santayana, he was also on intimate terms with William James...
...union trying to organize clerical and technical workers in the Medical Area has called a recent shuffle in the personnel department an attempt to strengthen the University's anti-union campaign, but Harvard officials yesterday denied the charge...