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...Soviets broke off in November after Britain and West Germany began to install new intermediate-range U.S. nuclear missiles, would only resume when the U.S. and its NATO allies took measures "to restore the situation that existed" before the deployment. Soviet policy, Chernenko warned, was not subject to "transient vacillations" or dependent on the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. Said he: "Hints about some sort of 'calculations' on our part in conjunction with the elections in the U.S. are an attempt by someone to conceal his own reluctance to reach agreements...
Cantabrigians derive some benefit from having institutions such as Harvard and MIT in their midst, if only because the children of professors and graduate students attend the public schools. Although Leib points out that this increases the transient nature of the student body and puts a strain on the schools, most school committee members cite the benefits of having academically oriented and diverse students in the system...
Such problems, though, may turn out to be short-lived. Synthesizers are enjoying a particular vogue just now because, in the words of one composer-arranger, "they fulfill pop music's never-ending quest for fresh ear candy," but entertainment-industry enthusiasms are notoriously transient, and next year may bring a rage for Mahler-size orchestras or Renaissance recorder ensembles. And despite its mockingbird predilections, the synthesizer still sounds, at root, mechanical...
Replacing the working-class families are the more transient paraprofessionals and other white-collar workers employed in metropolitan Boston. "Their political interests tend to be a lot different than families," says Foster. But city pols are unwilling to speculate about just what that change means...
...hard to keep a band together, given the outside pressure at Harvard," and easier to build an audience by confining appearances to campus locations, because of the transient nature of student musicians careers, Patell says...