Word: travailing
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Keen academicians who have traced student travail from Berkeley to Columbia to the Quadrangle at Harvard, unofficially agree that the moment of truth is at hand--if Harvard frays then the entire U.S. university fabric could unravel...
...unexpected vistas that had suddenly opened up before them." Beyond that, the Cohn-Bendits blame the established left: the Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they charge, failed to exploit existing power vacuums. "The party of order and political wisdom," as Communist Boss Waldeck Rochet described his organization, opted for a Popular Front government. By so doing...
...unprecedented permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to shut down for an "indefinite" period. With that, some 3,000 shareholders were locked into the fund. Though Mates' fund is a fairly small, if certainly spectacular member of the U.S. mutual-fund business (total assets: $55 billion), his travail is likely to make investors just a bit more skeptical about some forms of investment...
...deterioration in foreign trade." One way would be to block some of the $32.6 billion in imports now flowing into the U.S. That would also reverse a 35-year trend to liberalized trade -at a time the world is trading more than ever. Ultimately, the U.S. can ease its travail in trade only by increasing its productivity at home and pressing a vigorous drive to sell more abroad...
...Bernard Fall (Doubleday, $4.95), is a reminder of the business he left unfinished when a hidden Viet Cong mine killed Fall at 40 last February near the Demilitarized Zone. Beginning in 1952, Fall had dedicated 15 years to single-minded study of Viet Nam's bloody travail, had become a world authority on the baffling complexities of Communist-style guerrilla warfare. This posthumous collection of his last writings carries forward but adds little to arguments that he expounded tirelessly in Viet Nam during frequent trips into battle. He stresses the war's political nature. "When a country...