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...Indiana, a critic of PACs: "It's like getting addicted by a pusher. You become accustomed to lavish campaigns." In 1974 the average cost of campaigning for the House was $50,000; in 1980 the average was $150,000, and this year races costing $500,000 are not uncommon. Says House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois, who has raised more than $220,000 from PACs: "This year I'll pay several hundred thousand dollars for a job that pays...
Ever since Israel's birth as a nation in 1948, the Israel Defense Forces have enjoyed a position of uncommon esteem both in the country and beyond. David Ben-Gurion once remarked that the I.D.F. was perhaps his nation's most successful achievement. The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies this year rated the Israeli military as the fourth most powerful in the world. Yet today, in the wake of the Beirut massacre, many among the I.D.F.'s 172,000 regulars and 504,000 reservists are deeply demoralized...
What disturbs Radcliffe is not these "normal" difficulties, but rather, a series of water seepage problems that are reportedly uncommon in any structure, let alone one that opened just three years ago. The main question confronting Radcliffe was--and still is--how the damaging moisture gets into the building...
...Pellegrini '79 has taken a job in a field not uncommon for a geology concentrator--he is studying and moving rocks...
Robert Saltonstall, associate vice president of the University for operations, said that while "leaking in newly built buildings is not an uncommon problem," the Q-Rac has had unusual leaking problems...