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...First Lady rides the roller coaster of her husband's politics, takes the buffeting of uncontrollable world events and suffers the brickbats of detractors in frustrated silence. She is damned if she tries to influence policy and damned if she doesn't. In some ways, her job is tougher than the President...
...only one is needed. It means building storage tanks to withstand pressures and temperatures well above expected maximums. Adds Cox: "It's a process of calculating extremes, then designing beyond that." Every year the association reviews 1,200 engineering standards with an eye to making them sharper and tougher. American Cyanamid, a New Jersey-based chemical company, spent more than $10 million on safety features for just one plant in Pearl River, N.Y., where 4,000 people are employed. Allied, another New Jersey chemical giant, estimates that between 15% and 30% of the capital cost of building or expanding...
...only" majors. If the Faculty were to strengthen the College's honors requirements, either more students in honors-only concentrations would be forced to graduate outside their major or, through inflation of course and thesis grades, those who study in these elite curricula would effectively get to bypass the tougher requirements...
Against this backdrop, the Faculty has understandably been examining the issue for the past several years, and now a compromise proposal appears to be gaining momentum. The student-faculty Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has forwarded a slightly tougher, fairer proposal for distributing honors to the Faculty Council, the Faculty's elected steering committee...
There may be an additional reason for the tougher Vatican stance. The Pope's advisers believe that recent events have strengthened their case. They argue that natural methods have achieved greater reliability in preventing conception, that there is a bit less doomsaying about the population explosion and mass privation, and that health questions about artificial methods have been raised. To conservatives, the casual attitude in Western society toward sex provides an additional reason for concern...