Word: groups
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...continuity of the program, the department's permanent staff is small, with many of the professors visiting for a limited period of time. "There's not always balanced emphasis on all areas of art," Levine says, "but our faculty is extremely diverse and they represent a varied group of ideas and approaches...
...leading book industry statistician, how TIME could have the nation's most accurate bestseller list. With advice from the American Booksellers Association, Dessauer devised a sample of some 1,200 stores in cities across the U.S., balanced according to location, type of store and local sales volume. The group includes dozens of independent shops and mini-chains, the two largest U.S. booksellers (B. Dalton and Walden) and one middle-sized national chain (Brentano's). Each participating retailer has RICHARD WOOD agreed to furnish a portion of its weekly sales figures to our data-processing department, which maintains strict...
...rector of the Islamic Center in Copenhagen. This is false. My father Sibghatullah Mojadidi was the rector of the Islamic Center. He is a well-known Islamic scholar, with a specialization in Islamic law. Mojadidi is very much in favor of the unity of Afghan rebel groups. The group of which he is a member is open to everyone and is working for the liberation of Afghanistan and its people...
Another liberal group surprised by Reagan's policies was California's environmentalists. Reagan had protested that "there seems to be an organized, well-financed lobby that is determined to preserve the natural habitat and comfort of every species except man." But he established an air-resources board and gave it ample power to enforce stiff antipollution standards. He signed smog control laws more stringent than federal requirements. His rigid water pollution controls angered leaders of industry. He set aside an additional 145,000 acres of park lands, including 41 miles of expensive ocean front. He blocked a reservoir...
Housed in both a onetime jail and the former presidential offices, most of the refugees in San José waited to fly on to the countries that had agreed to accept them. At week's end an initial group of 97 moved on to Lima, where the exhausted exiles were welcomed by Peruvian Foreign Minister Arturo Garcia y Garcia; an Iberia jet flew 50 more refugees directly from Havana to Spain. The overwhelming majority, however, indicated a preference for resettlement in the U.S. "All 10,000 would like to go to Miami," observed one Costa Rican official...