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Funding current operation of the College. While the drive is going on, the Harvard College Fund will almost certainly suspend its annual campaign. The drive provides $20-25 million to the Faculty--$4-5 million each year of the capital drive--to replace the College Fund's annual contribution to the FAS budget...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Big Fund Drive: Arming for the Future | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...concern about not exaggerating, the gravity of the situation, took some symbolic steps intended to raise public awareness of the need to conserve oil. He issued a directive to all federal agency chiefs, suggesting that they lower the heat in federal buildings, restrict the use of Government vehicles, and suspend "energy-intensive research activities," though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double Jeopardy In Iran | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Indications are that the D.T.A. will probably wind up with 80% of the vote. But the showdown between the D.T.A. and SWAPO lies ahead. SWAPO is still waging the guerrilla war. It might suspend the fighting during a U.N.-supervised election campaign, but it would not be prepared to lose that voting contest. Says a SWAPO leader: "The struggle will continue. That's all." Translation: If SWAPO should be defeated at the polls in such an election, the bloodshed would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: Desert Mirage | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Certainly Magic is endless, especially if one has seen Dead of Night, Psycho or any of the other horror movies it ineptly rips off The film tells the story of a psychotic ventriloquist (Anthony Hopkins) whose dummy "orders" him to kill. For two hours the audience must unwillingly suspend disbelief while the other characters take their sweet time in unmasking the villain. There is no pretty scenery or hot sex to relieve the intervening tedium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Tricks | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...This production doesn't ask much of its audience, except that to suspend disbelief, tap its feet to some excellent show music, and enjoy itself. All of which can be done, without really trying...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A Moderate Success | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

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