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...League athletic directors are meeting in Houston this week to plan expansion strategy, and Restic said that "staying in I-A should be uppermost in our mind...
...rash of self-help books so abundant during the last few years. But in opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further: "The trunk and lower branches remain hidden from view: no clear, easily accessible, and authoritative description has been available to the public. This book is an attempt to provide that full picture, to reveal the tree...
...Corporation to balk initially--issues of paramount importance to the future direction of the University, academically, financially and ethically. Because of the myriad of potential conflicts that could arise when a university haphazardly ventures into the business world, it is reassuring to see that these issues are still uppermost in Bok's mind...
...they didn't care. Yesterday's Greater Boston Championships was treated as nothing more important than an afternoon workout. And now the uppermost item in the aquawomen's minds is the grudge match against Yale at home on February 14, which they hope will avenge the heartbreakingly close dual-meet loss last year--a loss that was decided in a final relay and featured injured Harvard swimmers being helped onto the blocks. In fact, the spirit of revenge is so strong that the last chant departing swimmers heard bouncing off the walls of the chlorinated auditorium yesterday was the Crimson...
...past, Miss's works have been more successfully integrated with their sites. An outdoor piece done for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid used an existing path running down a wooded hillside. Miss designed a series of gates and fences along the path, the uppermost gate framing a spectacular view. Another work, built for the Battery Park landfill site in New York City, consisted of a series of flat wooden structures with holes cut in them. If the viewer stood at one end, the holes would be in alignment and the viewer could focus on a measured expanse...