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...report stated that there was a slight increase in the number of students interested in college teaching. "With society getting in college teaching. "With society getting tougher and tougher, people are beginning to see that the academic life is a good life," Paul N. Yivisaker, dean of the School' of Education, said yesterday, adding that the university is a "place where you can still live a life of values...
...edged toward some franker views. "I predict he won't follow his campaign talk," he said, referring to Reagan's promises about abolishing the Departments of Energy and Education, making large tax cuts and other issues. Said Carter: "When you get here, it's a lot tougher to do." The previous evening, Carter had delivered a short, graceful farewell speech on TV that touched on the three issues he believes are of paramount importance: nuclear arms control, the planet's diminishing resources, and human rights. He hopes to force the issues on Reagan...
...transferred to Tehran upon the release of the hostages. The Algerian go-betweens had carried the U.S. proposal to Tehran on Jan. 2-along with a pointed reminder hat time was running out for the Carter Administration. It was hoped that Tehran's reluctance to deal with the tougher-sounding Reagan Administration might prompt a rapid response...
...Hoover Institution who once served as special presidential assistant in the Nixon White House, Anderson is an expert on welfare. He argues that the system now traps the poor in a cycle of dependency but cannot be radically altered. Instead, he believes that it must be gradually changed through tougher eligibility standards and work requirements...
NCPAC's job will be far tougher in 1982 because most of the liberals on its blacklist are from densely populated states, which are harder to inundate with propaganda. Dolan succeeded this year in Idaho, South Dakota and Iowa--states with small and increasingly conservative constituencies--but he flopped in California, where Alan Cranston held onto his seat...