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...sharpest increase in female faculty members has been at the lowest level, that of instructor. Ten years ago, one-third of all instructors were women, compared with 43.5 per cent this year...
...largely unnecessary air force of 114 French Mirage fighter-bombers, which inevitably stands as a threat to Israel, the frustrating obsession of the Arab world. Last week two of these planes inexplicably fired on an unarmed U.S. military-reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Mediterranean, provoking the sharpest exchange between Washington and Tripoli since Gaddafi came to power. In other spending aimed against Israel, Gaddafi gives at least $125 million a year to Egypt, about $45 million to Syria and perhaps $20 million to Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah and other Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas. (Sudan has officially accused...
...leading point getter with 3 goals and 9 assists, with Doug Allworth, and Gary Faryniuk with Peter Rotell. Either Jim Madich or Dave Sagaser will be in nets. "I haven't decided who will start, I'll look at both of them in practice and see who's the sharpest." Soares said...
...least as many characters, and dialogue that runs on and on like ticker tape. Money is not a particularly easy subject for fiction. Miss Stead is no Balzac or Dickens; on the other hand, she is no Louis Auchincloss either. She is, however, obviously mesmerized by money and her sharpest writing is comment about it. "Certainly I understand the class war," says a rich old countess. "We steal from the pigs: the pigs know they want truffles and we want truffles when we see the pigs with them. Money is truffles...
...broadcasting, it is not necessarily the sharpest wit but the pointiest elbow that often gets the prize. At the convention's end, when the preliminary rating report showed ABC with the greatest gain, Bill Sheehan beamed like a cheerleader. "We're going to be No. 2 by the end of the year. We're breathing down NBC's neck. We're basking in momentum." At NBC there was private worry: "Does the Chancellor-Brinkley team have enough-I don't know -enough sex, enough viewer appeal?" asked an executive. "We just...