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Some British Cabinet members last week were hoping that a two-way deal could be pulled off so that British firms could be involved in both the Airbus and one of the U.S. projects. If Britain were to opt for the U.S. deal, in angry Continental eyes that would compound the suspicion that deep down Britain is more interested in maintaining its mid-Atlantic "special relationship" with America than in being a true Common Market partner. Squabbling continued through the week not only about money and planes but also over a common fisheries policy for the E.C.; the British...
Nearly one out of every three alumnae who opt for employment is going into business or industry, a ten-per-cent increase from 1976. About 15 per cent of those choosing work enter jobs in the media or education, traditionally the most popular field...
...surprised that TIME should still opt for the same brand of cheap sensationalism as Senator Proxmire. Of the $97,000 of the NIMH grant in question, a maximum of $50 was spent on the brothel study. This minute aspect of the total project resulted in a single paragraph of 14 lines in a book of 324 pages where George Primov and I reported the results of our study, approximately the one-thousandth part of the total project. The book is entitled Inequality in the Peruvian Andes; Class and Ethnicity in Cuzco. That sounds sexy, doesn...
...student who cannot fit his academic interests into any of the 38 regular concentrations may opt to apply for a special concentration. Thirty-three Harvard undergraduates are currently enrolled in special concentrations that include Dance History and Criticism, Political Psychology, and Individual Choice Theory...
...argument. The same Frenchmen will vote in both rounds. There's an old saying in France: 'In the first round you criticize, in the second you choose.' " But this time there was a clear possibility that in the second round the French voters would opt for a change...