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Buttressing his financial argument, Bok said that women have traditionally favored the humanities and the social sciences. Increasing Radcliffe's class at the expense of Harvard's would thus weaken the already languishing sciences and burden the other fields with additional students and costs...
...incessant concern to keep Matthau beautiful, Lemmon takes away dimension from everyone but Winters. Kotch's children are Punch and Judy, and his neighbors caricatures. Moreover, the soupy conclusion tends to weaken all that went before. Kotch is "family" entertainment, but in its anxiety to please, it eventually cloys. It is a yes-man of a movie that Joseph P. Kotcher would have disdained...
...United Nations would be a mockery of the provision of the charter which limits its membership to "peace-loving nations." And what was most disturbing was that it would give respectability to the Communist regime, which would immensely increase its power and prestige in Asia and probably irreparably weaken the non-Communist governments in that area...
...idea that the U.S. would pour $125 billion and 45,000 lives into the country with the idea of "undermining" it is absurd; yet some Vietnamese insist that such is the case. Illogically, many are convinced that the U.S. is supporting Thieu and at the same time trying to weaken the Thieu government...
...IATA rule that all price changes must be ratified unanimously by the membership. The new proposal would require the approval of only 70% of the lines that actually fly the route in question and would seriously weaken lATA's price-fixing power. Though most members oppose such a move now, the threat by the big four to withdraw from IATA may change their position. "We need an industry association," says Air Canada President John Baldwin. "The only question is whether or not it should have the power to set fares...