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...agreement to cut strategic nuclear warheads on each side to between 3,000 and 3,500 -- about a third of their present levels -- over the next 10 years. The reductions are as dramatic as the way they will be carried out: both sides will abandon outright their land- based multiple-warhead ballistic missiles...
Crews have been working around the clock for about three weeks to complete as much construction as possible before the summer school session begins, said Associate Director for Engineering and Utilities Harold A. Hawkes. This week, construction workers will abandon night shifts and begin working only day shifts to minimize disruption for summer Yard residents...
Heyn argues that women, even sexually active ones, undergo a transformation at the altar that is born largely of reading too many happily-ever-after fairy tales. They abandon their true needs and desires to don the robes of sexlessness, self-sacrifice and self-denial. "The Perfect Wife, is, of course, Donna Reed," Heyn writes. "Her virtue exists in direct proportion to how much of her self is whittled away." Having dampened her "visceral, honest, unshaped and uncontrolled responses," the American wife begins to feel like a shadow or zombie. To retrieve her personhood, she understandably takes a lover. Suddenly...
That pledge has even more resonance now that Perot has signed up two men who understand their own parties' weaknesses. The son of a California electrician who grew up in public housing, Rollins is in many ways typical of the Reagan Democrats who began to abandon the party in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Rollins worked for Reagan in 1980 and 1984, then ran Jack Kemp's ill-fated 1988 bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Still built like the high school wrestler he once was, Rollins is a nuts-and-bolts political operative who, friends say, was restless...
Only two members of the committee--both students--have expressed support for ROTC. In contrast, at least four of the six professors on the committee appears more inclined to abandon Harvard's remaining ties with ROTC...