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...closed and will remain so until recently begun repairs are completed While that preliminary for opening may not occur for another few weeks, students and University officials should be looking at the many QRAC problems that have nothing to do with digging new drains or fixing leaks but rather threaten more than just the future of a building...
Ronald Reagan emerges from the election with his ideas somewhat battered but his leadership oddly intact. He is entering one of those times of presidential paradox when the very traits that took him to the top threaten his command...
...week's economic news, a maddeningly familiar mixture of plus and minus signs. The pluses: lower interest rates, higher housing starts, more stock-market exuberance. Big minus: very sluggish production. The Congress to be chosen next week will have to decide how to trim gargantuan budget deficits that threaten to choke off the recovery whenever it does come...
...with a shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down 49 Soviet divisions, some of which might otherwise be redeployed westward to threaten Europe or the Persian Gulf. Western calculations about the future have been haunted by the fear that...
Environmentalists, though, strongly oppose plans to drill on the outer continental shelf, claiming they are ill conceived and hastily developed and will threaten an ecologically fragile area. In addition, the powerful Sierra Club argues that the Government could get far more for its leases if it held back from opening so much land so quickly. That would give prices time to rise and allow oil companies time to collect money to make even higher bids...