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...Unemployment is the problem uppermost on many peoples minds." Reagan said...
...College, divides the long-range questions unearthed by chaos into two groups. The first is practical: just how long can the College, and universities in general, expect to go on coming up with new grants and loans to finance the ever-growing costs of education? The second--uppermost in enough people's minds by March so that both President Bok and Yale's President A. Bartlett Giamatti devoted annual reports to the subject--concerns what responsibility, if any, the federal government actually bears to higher education...
...safe are the skies? That question was uppermost in the minds of travelers last summer after Ronald Reagan fired 12,000 striking air controllers, leaving supervisors, non-strikers and military controllers to do the job. But as the months passed and 10,500 skywatchers, rather than the previous 17,400, manned the nation's control towers, airports managed to operate without major mishaps or too many exasperating delays. Fear of flying faded fast. Now, although the Federal Aviation Administration strongly disputes them, some controllers are warning that there may still be reason for renewed concern. Says one Atlanta controller...
...natural stage presence also steels situation from Slade; she moves slowly but gracefully, suiting her steps and value to each song. After becoming "tipsy," for instance, she hiccups and belches her way through a number, teetering back and forth on the stage. And Hellmold's voice, even in the uppermost reaches, is more than equal to such affects; the cadenzas of some of her arias, though they climb to high C's and D's, remain brilliantly clear...
...none of this--not even the Beanpot--is uppermost in Wade Lau's mind right now. "This might surprise a lot of people," he says, "but it I had to pick two games for us to win this week it would be Brown and Yale, not the Beanpot games...