Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broke, another notorious spy case came to a close in a Los Angeles federal courtroom. Former Northrop Engineer Thomas Cavanagh, 40, was sentenced last week to 99 years in prison for attempting to sell "stealth" aircraft technology to FBI agents posing as Soviet embassy personnel. His price for this vital information: a modest...
...Dollmaker (Fonda), Country (Lange) and The River (Spacek). "It is heartbreaking to witness their anguish as they watch their lives stripped away," said Lange as she choked back her emotion and brought Fonda to tears. Warned Spacek, who lives on a farm in Virginia: "Our largest and most vital industry is disintegrating." Administration officials, added Fonda, "roll over the debt of Poland more obligingly than of Iowa." Whether any lawmakers were newly inspired to fight for the farmers' cause, they were all moved at least to get in line: each wanted a picture taken shaking hands with the star witnesses...
...provocative as reallocation of university funds (increasing reorganizing the administration, little discussion has been generated thus far. As graduate students who reported to the Strauch Committee, we lament this and hope that the report will be more widely read and openly debated among the university community. Discussion is particularly vital because of the report's occasionally self-congratulatory content. It is the product of many minds; contradictions on basic issues have survived unresolved in the final version. The response of the FAS community will help determine how these disagreements are untangled and acted upon In addition, the Report itself legislate...
...Committee only makes passing references to the two graduate appeals boards, the teaching Fellows Appeals Board and the Financial Aid Appeals Board, and define the latter too narrowly Access to appellate procedure is vital to the welfare of any healthy institution and the existence of these boards should be more widely publicized Its task should include institutions and enforcement of existence of these boards should be more widely published. Its task should include interpretation and enforcement of existing guidelines, not just wavering them (which is how the Report defines its function...
...personal force and violence and freedom or movement. Interference with any of these freedoms must be regarded as a serious violation of the personal rights upon which the community is based. Furthermore, although the administrative processes and activities of the University cannot be ends in themselves, such functions are vital to the orderly pursuit of the work of all members of the University. Therefore, interference with members of the University in performance of their normal duties and activities must be regarded as unacceptable obstruction of the essential processes of the University. Theft or willful destruction of the property...