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...most controversial disclosures involved a British subsidiary of a New Jersey firm, Consarc Corp. U.S. officials discovered in 1985 that Consarc had been shipping vacuum furnaces to the Soviet Union for two years, with the approval of British authorities. The high-temperature furnaces had the potential of producing an extremely light and durable fiber, carbon-carbon, used to improve the accuracy of intercontinental ballistic missiles. When the U.S. learned of the case, officials rushed to halt the deal. Though most of the order had already been filled, U.S. authorities prevailed on the British government to stop shipment of the vital...
...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...national conference would be very important," said Yale law professor Drew S. Days III, an affirmative action expert who was invited to the conference. "There is a vacuum of attention [to this problem] and Harvard's conference could fill...
...strange vacuum, a palpable absence. Ronald Reagan, for so long a vivid presence in the American consciousness, seemed, for a time at least, to be lost, almost vanishing. One thought of a line from A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin: "The number-one managerial productivity problem in America is, quite simply, managers who are out of touch with their people and out of touch with their customers." The President and his customers were living on different planets...
...about 50% more oxygen than it does now. Geochemists Gary Landis of the U.S. Geological Survey and Robert Berner of Yale reached their startling conclusion after analyzing tiny air bubbles trapped in bits of amber, the aged and solidified resin of coniferous trees. They placed the amber inside a vacuum chamber, then cracked it to let the ancient air escape. They found that it was 32% oxygen, compared with 21% in the modern atmosphere...