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...upshot of all of this is that those of tomorrow's graduates who are dissatisfied, to whatever extent, with their time here do not know whether extent, with their time here do not know whether to blame themselves for making bad decisions or the University for letting them do so. I suspect that while most would fault Harvard publicly, they secretly perceive themselves as having taller short of the mark. This is the logical result of having made a lot of decisions by oneself...
...upshot is that Congress today is much more of a brake on an Administration's initiatives ? and perhaps on the nation's progress ? than it is an inspiring source of fresh ideas and solutions to problems. Whether that reactive tendency, to block what a President proposes, is perceived as good or bad depends, of course, on the observer's political point of view. In any case, Congress this year will not produce many dramatic new legislative achievements. Reagan, in fact, has asked it to undo much of what its predecessors have done...
...penalty box. Nilan heard some remarks from Baxter which he apparently did not care for. Thinking that the moment required some decisive action. Nilan picked up a loose puck and, from the penalty box, winged it across the ice at Baxter, nailing him squarely on the head. The upshot was a three-game suspension and plenty of press...
...upshot of all these changes, even Gorsuch admits, is dismal morale among a once elite corps of highly trained scientists and lawyers. Dissidents within the EPA leak virtually every budget draft and controversial memo to the press and to a growing number of Gorsuch's critics in Congress, including some Republicans. The leaks have made Gorsuch feel even more embattled. She has taken the offensive against the EPA's much praised first decade, claiming a tradition of "mismanagement and no management." Some points are valid. When she took office there was a backlog of more than...
...while cells on either side of the brain responded preferentially to one eye over the other, more than half received input from both eyes. The upshot was a neurological sense of how and where the two separate retinal images are unified in the brain...