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...fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Conway has a twofold purpose at Harvard: to educate the community about South Africa and to increase his won understanding of the issue...
Fowler's goals are twofold: to end the financial restrictions on how broadcasting companies do business and to strip away Government control of program content. Fowler has asked Congress to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, a touchstone of communications policy that obligates broadcasters to air opposing views on issues of public importance. He wants to eradicate the "777 Rule," which aims to promote diversity by preventing companies from owning more than seven AM, seven FM and seven TV stations. He has proposed an end to the 16-min.-per-hr. limit on television commercials. Fowler also wants to do away...
...presented his Cabinet to the Knesset, Shamir pledged to continue his predecessor's policies. Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres immediately went on the offensive. What would continue, he said, would be the "twofold tragedy" of the Begin government: economic disaster and the war in Lebanon...
...diplomacy, the Center paralleled similar ones at MIT, Princeton and Columbia. A strong sense of mission, veteran members say, characterized the CFIA's beginnings; scholars hoped to address the "unprecedented task" of stabilizing the sharply divided, bipolar, and newly technologically equipped world. The need the Center first defined was twofold--for wider knowledge, and for men to apply that knowledge to foreign affairs. Accordingly, a staff of permanent faculty members was established to complement a Fellows Program, in which "practitioners"--diplomats, government officials and military officials of all nationalities--could spend a year in academia...
...tremendous threat to the environment. Produced mainly in the Eastern U.S., it acidifies lakes and streams, killing fish and other aquatic wildlife, and has been found to cause excessive root decay to forests and crops and to corrode man-made structures. The human dangers of acid rain are twofold: sulfur dioxide interferes with the respiratory system, and acidified water pulls toxic metals out of water supply piping. About one-half the acid rain which falls on Canada originates in the Eastern belt of the United States, which generates 221/2 tons of sulfur dioxide annually...