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...tougher than before in many ways. There's a certain amount of political capital that was consumed. The willingness to bite the bullet, to take risks, has dissipated on the part of members for understandable reasons. You can't afford to have everybody at you and still get reelected. But the budget reality is that there is no other choice...
...response of theater parties has been notably nil. Says Ronald Lee, president of Group Sales Box Office: "We listed the show in our Broadway gram, which reaches the leaders of 20,000 theater groups, and didn't get one bite." McCann thinks it's not the price that keeps people away, but the show's length. "They need to be convinced that they can sit for 8% hours and still enjoy themselves." The question should not be whether you can sit still, but whether, as Nickleby unfolds, you will ever want to leave. If the show plays to empty seats...
...Says Paul Sullivan, who owns a sportswear manufacturing firm in Methuen, Mass.: "The steps that the President is taking are necessary. It may be tough now, but we can weather it." Says James Graham, a high school teacher in North Little Rock, Ark.: "People are going to have to bite the bullet now, or there isn't going to be any bullet to bite in ten years...
Inflation has taken such a big bite out of universities' budgets for improvement of laboratories and equipment in general that their facilities across the board are now considered twice as old as those owned by private corporations. Level funding will lead to continued deterioration of university research over the next ten years, "and that is unquestionably a bad situation," Coddington says. Harvard scientists had expected up to $2 million from a $75 million NSF fund set aside specifically for renovation and new instrumentation, but Reagan killed the authorization last spring. Congress has since allocated $16.5 million for improvements--a "promising...
...Kardonsky, the most experienced skipper in the fleet, a more savage task remains. The Cavalier has to tow one last load of equipment to Prudhoe Bay. The tug will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance. -By Michael Moritz