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...flows. The fanatic ideologues behind the revolutionary Iranian regime would not be averse to a hobbling of the industrial world, especially if such action sent the price of crude through the roof and actually increased Iran's total revenue from the reduced amount of oil that would no doubt slip through...
Despite the steady growth in enrollment. Rupp says the school simply must boost its endowment to insure that the quality of the programs doesn't slip. Toward that goal, the school will begin a major fundraising program later this year...
...laughs at answers. Thriller is not Who's Next or The White Album or Blonde on Blonde or Songs in the Key of Life or Born to Run, records that were argued over and championed like talismans that could change lives. It is like a piece of elegant sportswear: slip right into it, shrug it off. Jackson has written and performed ebulliently with Paul McCartney; he often appears in bright band jackets; he has palled around a bit with Sean Ono Lennon and has taken him to a Broadway show. It should be clear from all this that Jackson...
...been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles as a clumsy provocation. "He's a spook, a rather bad spook," said one State Department official. Explained another: "If they had wanted to slip in ringers at the Games, this was not a good way to begin it." Officials said that the U.S. would gladly grant a visa to a legitimate substitute for Yermishkin...
Unfortunately, the business cycle has no respect for the political cycle. If Congress and the White House insist on avoiding until 1985 the difficult measures needed to control the deficit, the chance to keep the recovery going and assure the future health of the U.S. economy may slip irretrievably away. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte and Neil MacNeil/Washington