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Slimming Down. In Nebraska. Colorado and North Carolina, voters approved plans to trim the gingerbread off woefully rococo judicial systems. North Carolina's Governor Terry Sanford led his state's fight for court reform, declared that the present system contains "glaring evils"-among them, the fact that most of the nearly 900 justices of the peace get no pay for hearing a case unless they convict the defendant...
Despite the impression they created last Saturday, I still think the Tigers are a reasonably good team, and certainly good enough to trim Yale, by around two touchdowns...
...married him in 1939 after he divorced No. 3. Liu's wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early 60s), she is dark. trim, and, judging by her appearance in a gown of opulent velvet, clothes-conscious...
...nothing inevitable about this flood. Certain HSA activities encroach; others do not; and it would be pointless to insist that the entire agency is a sweeping, irresistible evil. (The article below is part of an attempt to illustrate this). The trouble is simply that the University refuses to trim offending activities down to their proper size. No doubt the fact that the HSA Director wears extra hats in the student employment office and in Administration committees has something to do with Harvard's passivity, but it certainly cannot completely explain who the Administration apparently never subjects the HSA to thorough...
Despite corporate efforts to trim advertising expenditures, however, the trend to bigger ad budgets seems likely to continue. Contributing to that trend, along with the flow of consumer advertising, are the industrial and institutional campaigns. This year U.S. business, mostly in the fields of construction and heavy manufacturing, will invest close to $600 million in fact-crammed industrial ads intended to attract the eyes of purchasing agents and establish a company's reputation so that it will be invited to supply talent and material and to bid on jobs. In addition, there are ''institutional" ads-such...