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...True, students miss many meals, but we are only charged for 14 meals a week and the alternative would be to have a variable meal program like that found at other schools that would require careful monitoring of how many meals each student has eaten. Such a system would destroy interhouse meals as well as add a concentration camp type security force to the dining halls that would make eating quite unpleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Fast | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...West European allies fretted about the potential consequences, and as Senate and House leaders gave qualified support while waiting to be consulted under the War Powers Resolution, the pilots of the F/A-18 Hornets and A-7E Corsairs stood ready for the command, should it come, to attack and destroy Libya's airfields, radar stations, Soviet-built missile sites and terrorist training camps. No matter what the outcome, regardless of when and if the President issues a final order, the week's drum rolling dramatized Ronald Reagan's world view in action. It also illustrated some of the frustrations of putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting Gaddafi | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Levy were to conquer the Likud camp, the guaranteed shift of the country's top position would be snatched away from any Likudnik, since the rotation agreement is dependent upon Shamir's heading the party. Now Levy is maneuvering to destroy the ministerial switcheroo agreement, since there is nothing...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Back from the Brink | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...radar signals to find its way to the target, "you get a higher probability of kill," says Donald Hicks, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. "But you have to recognize that nothing is perfect." Such smart weapons are designed to cripple a radar dish, not destroy an entire missile site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions and Reforms | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

However, the symposium's moderator, Cathleen Kelley, said the non-profit banking system will not solve the crisis. "If nothing is done [to allieviate the farming situation], it will destroy whole communities in North Dakota," she said...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Farm Foreclosures Will Increase | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

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