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...look into why enrollment at the school has dropped 60 percent during the last decade, why graduate students perennially complain that Harvard doesn't have enough teaching fellowships or housing for them, and why the GSAS needs more money--and lots of it. These problems are just the tip of the GSAS iceberg...
...reform, one potentially historic innovation of Reagan's second term, House Speaker Tip O'Neill has promised to produce a bill before Christmas. But Senate Republican leaders show no similar disposition. They are still smarting from the President's refusal to back them last month after they agreed to a delay in Social Security cost of living adjustments to cut the deficit. Says Iowa's Republican Senator Charles Grassley: "He needs to give us a clear understanding of when he will be with us and when he won't, if he expects us to walk the plank...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who led a delegation of four American Congressmen in a visit to Gorbachev in April, told him that he seemed to have come out of nowhere. Gorbachev replied with a smile that "in the Soviet Union, there are many places to hide." As late as 1978, he was well enough hidden that few Soviet citizens, let alone Americans, had ever heard his name. His biography until that point was brief: son of Stavropol peasants, law graduate of Moscow State University, holder of various regional Communist Party positions for 23 years. Much about the formative influences...
...production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took off for Sao Paulo, Alexander, 51, the House chief deputy majority whip, was the only Congressman among the nine passengers aboard. None of the four legislators Alexander had asked...
Termed a miniature homing vehicle, or MHV, the warhead rests on the tip of an 18-ft. missile slung from the belly of a high-flying, specially equipped F-15 fighter. Guided by ground stations tracking enemy satellites, the F-15 climbs several miles into the sky and fires the missile. The two-stage rocket then boosts the warhead out of the atmosphere and into space. The telescopes in the nose of the MHV pick up infrared radiation emanating from the enemy satellite and focus it on a heat-sensitive targeting device. The device is housed in a small refrigerator...