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...controversy has largely skirted the ABM treaty, under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union have agreed to deploy only token missile defenses at just two locations in each country, with 100 missiles and launchers at each site. To be sure, congressional doves were disappointed that ABM systems were not outlawed altogether; reflecting that disappointment, the Senate Armed Services Committee last week did not grant an Administration request for authorization of a second U.S. ABM complex near Washington, D.C. Besides avoiding a horrendously costly new turn in the arms race, the ABM treaty is cheered by defense experts...
...Russian family can rent a two-bedroom dacha for the equivalent of about $100 a month. Holiday accommodation is also available through dacha cooperatives, run by most government ministries and academic institutions for their more senior employees. A member pays a token lease for a bit of rural land on which he can build a private dacha for an average of about $2,000. The tracts are usually about 25 acres subdivided into fifty half-acre plots. There are hundreds of such cooperatives around Moscow...
OVER THE PAST year, the new Administration has publicized changes favorable to women which are, in fact, token gestures, conciliatory but not committed to equality. The 4-to-1 ratio has been replaced by the promise of a 2.5-to-1 ratio, but real dedication to an equal admissions policy still does not seem part of Harvard's picture of its future. Women are still treated as second class scholars at every level of the University. Though several women faculty members have been appointed this year, they will still account for only 1.9 per cent of all tenured appointments. Most...
...including AT&T, IBM, Gulf Oil, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler-have faced proxy challenges from environmentalists, civil rights activists, consumer advocates and church groups. Other corporations, like McDonnell Douglas and Continental Oil, have had to cope with demonstrations against company policies or last-minute proposals from dissidents with token stockholdings. True, the shareholding public seems largely indifferent to pleas from activists. In three annual onslaughts against General Motors, the Project on Corporate Responsibility has never polled more than 2.3% on any of its proposals -despite the support of more than 20 churches, 15 universities, five labor unions, three mutual...
Three Thirty Six has no feel for the textures of Harvard life. One essay on the subject, "Creeping Sentimentalism," makes a few token gestures in that direction--summoning up memories of the Golden Age of Paine Hall, of the '69 Strike's Six Demands, of Turkey DeLuxes and Baskin-Robbins--but it remains a stone skittering across the surface of our common experience. Not that I want to tell you guys how to run your show, but I do envy you the time and money that go into your project. You should be able to produce a record...