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...entire basin. The sections had initially been freed up for lease by the Interior Department in 1981. But California managed to block the proposed arrangement on the ground that the Interior Department had refused to determine whether the leasing met the state's stringent environmental standards. In the new ruling, the court, overturning lower-court decisions, held that an environmental review is not required before an actual sale under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, a congressional law that gives states a voice in offshore oil development by the Federal Government...
Although Harvard has made a concerted policy to comply with federal affirmative action standards, this commitment seems not to have borne fruit. Officials assert that they are up against new and more stringent barriers in their recruitment of minority and female candidates for tenured and managerial positions. They note that star-systems at other universities make minority and female candidates harder to woo, and point to career trends moving consistently away from education. Unfortunately, these problems have fostered a kind of complacency in many parts of the University with many officials feeling that the times justify a lack of effort...
...will grow substantially and that demonstrations against them will continue. West Germany's pacifists have already called for a huge antinuclear protest to take place on Dec. 12. But there was an important positive consequence: the oft-fragmented Atlantic Alliance had, contrary to many predictions, responded to its most stringent test in more than 25 years by affirming rather than weakening its resolve. ?By George Russell. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary Lee/ Bonn and Strobe Talbott/Geneva...
...want the most stringent law to be the statewide standard," Jordon said, adding, however, that municipalities can enact stronger restrictions, such as limiting or even banning condo conversion altogether...
...business we're in, and first serial rights are an important source of income for us." Whatever the final outcome of the case, publishers are considering new tactics to avoid such battles. Some warn that galleys of major books will be offered to fewer bidders with more stringent security restrictions. Others, like Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, think the ruling "will force earlier first publication," sacrificing the advantages of later publicity so that reporters will not have time to get unauthorized copies...