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...Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, suspects that "Gromyko is making up for the time he was an errand boy for Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Says Richard F. Staar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Gromyko has always been a hardliner. He's delighted now to perform that function as the official spokesman for the party...
...continue. The Chiefs felt that their civilian colleagues in the Pentagon, Weinberger and Perle, were overrating the impor tance of throw weight. The Chiefs argued that what gave missile warheads their ability to threaten ene my silos was their accuracy, not their destructive capability, and accuracy was not a function of throw-weight. Also, they were determined to see START preserve limits on launchers, and the lower the better...
...when we are injured so that healing can occur. Pain has an evolutionary importance, says Anatomist Allan Basbaum, of the University of California, San Francisco. "Not to have pain at all is a disaster." But when the pain alarm fails to shut off, it ceases to serve a useful function. "Uncontrolled pain," Basbaum notes, "is also a disaster." In fact, it can do serious harm. The acute pain that follows surgery can, for example, sometimes interfere with a patient's ability to breathe, as well as contribute to nausea and add to the strain on the heart. Chronic pain...
Marichal says that the freedom given to Spain's historically fractious provinces is largely due to faith in this "singular function of the crown...
This alienation may be a function of department size--in the smaller departments, junior faculty seem to feel more integrated. In one small department, an assistant professor says, "I don't feel like a junior faculty member at all." "At the margins, departments can do things to improve...the climate and relations between junior and senior faculty," says Putnam, who adds that this is going to be one of his highest priorities as chairman in Government. Besides, says History Department Chairman John Womack Jr. '59, the distance across the tenure line hasn't gotten worse in the last 15 years...