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...made. The substantial funds diverted by IBM from productive areas like research to its legal department and the years the company set back cautiously watching the government's actions helped allow substantial foreign competition to gain a foothold in one of America's most important export industries. Not till several years ago did the computer manufacturer abandon its careful stance and convinced it would win the case, plunge back into the fight by introducing new product lines and cutting prices. The Reagan Administration's courage in dropping a case that has dragged harmfully on through both Republican and Democratic administrations...
...After tea, the bugle sounded under the Rebellion Tree [an elm in front of Hollis], when 41 out of 70 bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...
...shopkeeper, artist-as-vermin mentality--these are questions that Hayman knows are unanswerable. How 'bout that Gresor Samsa--transformed into a dung beetle so he kills himself with sorrow watching his family carry on the breadwinning without him. And with all that space on the ceiling where you crawl till your heart's content...
Wesleyan is one of small minority of colleges--including Harvard and Swarthmore--that up till now have pursued a completely "aid-blind" admissions policy, under which they promise to spend as much money on aid as it necessary to let accepted applicants attend, Harvard and Wesleyan admissions officers said yesterday...
...even approach? What use, even, to give us the moment of Fran and Jo-Jo's traumatic kiss, if we are to learn two acts afterward that the final break between them came later, when she returned from the date in the wee hours and he raged at her till she hit and wounded him with a brass ornament...