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...Administration took its first step in the right direction in December when it engineered a settlement with American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). For a quarter of a century, the giant conglomerate had been enmeshed in a legislative and judicial thicket, as a 1956 consent decree forbidding AT&T to manufacture and sell data-processing and other high-technology equipment has grown obsolete in a changing market with foreign competition...
...hope to get their children into a traditional prep school like Lake Forest, that may be good advice. But in the past decade private schools have grown bewilderingly diverse. The 1980 Porter Sargent Handbook of Private Schools lists 1,800. Counselors provide a helping hand through the pedagogical thicket, especially to the increasing number of parents who are uneasily exploring for the first time the once snobbish world of prep schools...
Arising from a thicket of local grass roots, Christian schools today are found in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes from kindergarten through grade twelve, at academic levels that range from fairly high to very low. Discrimination in favor of religion is a basic raison d'etre, and at the more zealous schools, a tub-thumping suspicion of all nonreligious learning fills the air. In a 150-page how-to-start-a-school guide for would-be organizers, Educator Robert Billings (now a top Reaganite administrator in the Department of Education) warns in capital letters: NO UNSAVED INDIVIDUALS...
...walk, but the drizzle and the knot of well-wishers outside had scared him back into the hotel. Instead of returning to Chambre 15, the room he has occupied during his weekly visits to his parliamentary district for the past 35 years, he had wandered into a small thicket of journalists in the hotel dining room who were waiting for the early projections from sample precincts. In contrast to his usual aloof attitude toward reporters, François Mitterrand seemed to want company during these final hours of his long vigil. Yet he is a failure when it comes...
...fierce political debate is now being waged on just how the untidy thicket of laws governing the nation's immigration policies should be reshaped and pruned. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy, chaired by Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and International Law, headed by Democratic Representative Romano L. Mazzoli of Kentucky, opened joint hearings last week on reforming those laws. Says Simpson: "Our policies have made us the laughter of the world. Immigration is a game of numbers, and somewhere along the line we are going...