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Prodi says he is convinced that with a "clear economic policy," thus far prevented by tenuous coalitions, the government can solve mounting problems of capital outflow and 15 per cent annual inflation...
Jerry W. Friedheim. Friedheim's connection with the Watergate investigation is admittedly a bit tenuous, so in one sense he doesn't belong here at all. But in another sense he belongs with the men indicted for trying to cover up the plumbers' unit's subversive activities, because as press secretary to the Pentagon, Friedheim tried to cover up the continuing bombing of Cambodia. When American bombers destroyed the Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi in December 1972, Friedheim acknowledged that there might have been minor incidental damage to "the hospital the enemy calls Bach Mai." If conspiring to cover...
...connection between the improvement of women's education and the Radcliffe College Fund may seem tenuous to those people who insist that the fund finances an elite institution. That argument against making a contribution is skewed; Radcliffe's students only can be as diverse as Radcliffe's coffers make it. Each of us at Radcliffe, for whatever personal reasons, values the Radcliffe-Harvard education or we wouldn't be here. For my part, Harvard has managed, at least to keep its intellectual integrity intact and the university offers resources such as the Carpenter Center and the Science Center, that should...
...chaos--are presented with the same frenzied, confused montage which wreaks havoc on the plot. Even the masters of quick-cutting, whom Brown openly imitates, structure their films around sequential thought, building their tricks atop a plot that conveys at least a remote sense of plot or development. Tenuous visual connections alone aren't enough to grab an audience...
...critics also object to what they consider Curran's recommendation of drug therapy and behavior modification programs to control troublesome prisoners. Curran says he didn't recommend these programs at all, but his report summary says "we suggest consideration" of them, and the distinction he makes is pretty tenuous at best...