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...causes of the catalogue boom are clear. Few things can delight shoppers weary of long lines, costly transportation and surly salespeople as much as thumbing through a richly illustrated booklet amid the comforts of home. Carol Lefcourt, a financial planner who heads a company in Palo Alto, Calif., likes to soak in a warm bubble bath while catalogue shopping. She says that she has not stepped inside a department store in 15 years...
Proposition 2 1/2 pressures are not only affecting the schools. City Councilor David Wylie said yesterday he would like to see a third printing of the city's popular civil defense booklet, which advocates nuclear disarmament as the best way to maintaining public safety. But Wylie adds that budget considerations may keep the city from adding to the 40,000 booklets which have already been printed...
...quick look at the Fields of Concentration booklet seems to lend credence to this interpretation. Although History and Literature and Social Studies now have almost exactly the same number of concentrators, Social Studies has the equivalent of only 6.90 full-time teaching fellows while History...
...just three days before President Reagan announced his decisions on the MX missile and the B-1 bomber. Naturally, there was suspicion that the timing was designed to help the Pentagon justify the vast sums needed for the new strategic systems. Weinberger flatly denied the charge. Plans for the booklet, he said, began last April after the U.S. presentation of a top-secret "threat assessment" of Soviet military strength to NATO defense ministers in Bonn. The ministers were sufficiently impressed to urge Weinberger to make the study public so they could use it to defuse opposition in their own countries...
...beefed up their defenses with thousands of antitank missiles. Nevertheless, Gregory Treverton, assistant director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in London, complimented the report for its exhaustive detail and declared that it "does not overemphasize Soviet power." The Government Printing Office has already run off 36,000 booklets (at a cost of $40,000, with copies available to the public at $6.50 each), and there are plans to translate the booklet into five languages (German, French, Japanese, Italian and Spanish). The study, however, received a negative review from at least one interested reader. TASS, the Soviet news agency...