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...spring, though, has seen progress in a related area--the task of bringing more women and minorities to the Law School faculty. In one fell swoop it appointed three women and a Black as assistant professors: Because of the School's tracking program, they each stand a good chance of becoming tenured professors...
Normally, meetings of the 13-nation OPEC cartel are accompanied by pomp, pageantry and no small amount of worldwide hand wringing as the cartel's jetabout ministers swoop into distant capitals to push up the price of oil. Yet when word leaked of a secret gathering in Geneva two weeks ago of six of OPEC's top ministers, who had assembled at the invitation of Saudi Arabia to discuss pricing and production strategy, the oil-consuming nations seemed distinctly more relaxed than in the past...
...perhaps the most important drills have involved the crucial moments of takeoff and landing. Unless the blast-off is precise, says Young, "you can almost leave the wings sitting on the ground. You have to thread that needle very carefully." The risk in landing is that Columbia will swoop down with no power; there would thus be no way of correcting a mistake...
...third line, freshman Jay (Swoop) North flanked by Dave Connors and Shayne Kukulowicz, showed flashes of excellence for the third consecutive game, and just missed putting home a couple of goals...
...House without disrupting students' lives, Abernathy says. But he adds that a study of the Houses may take place in summer 1981. Next summer is also the target date for completing work on the Yard dorms, pending the Thayer experiment. "We would do the whole Yard in one fell swoop--I'd say it would take two or three days" to insulate each Yard building, Abernathy says...