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...Nixon and Kissinger had hoped to negotiate another extension of SALT I's restrictions, expiring in 1977, on the number of launchers that each country can deploy. In addition, the American leaders sought to limit the development of MIRV warheads, several of which can be clustered in the tip of one missile and aimed at individual targets. The U.S. has a five-year lead over the Russians in the development and deployment of MlRVs...
...have been raised by 10 per cent in the wake of recent increases in food prices, and a $4 minimum per person has been decreed, even though it is difficult to wheedle a $4 meal out of the menu. An average meal runs close to $8 a person, excluding tip...
Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years...
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...prospects of a condemned football stadium, although perhaps exaggerated, are probably very distressing to at least some undergraduates and a large, vocal section of alums who love nothing better than to tip the old bottle while sitting above the 50-yard line. Harvard has not exactly established itself as a national or even perennial Ivy power, but the Crimson hardly deserves the humility of playing all its games on the road or of "borrowing" B.U. or some other local school's field...