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...billion of red ink in fiscal 1984, which ends Sept. 30. That would swell during each of the following three fiscal years, to $201.2 billion in 1987. How then can anyone talk about deficit "reduction"? Only by calculating that if nothing were done, the gap would yawn even wider, to $269 billion three years from...
...nearly managed to defeat the four-year-old legislation. The measure passed by only a tenuous five-vote margin--one which could have been closed or broadened by the eight representatives who did not vote. In the Senate, which includes not a single Hispanic, the bill passed by a wider margin...
...this highly charged atmosphere last week that Saudi Arabia finally, and reluctantly, fought back. Despite their arsenal of 130 sophisticated aircraft, including 60 American-made F-15s, the Saudis had been thought to be fearful of provoking Iran into a wider war and uneasy about the ability of their own inexperienced pilots...
...however, sensed that we were participating in and contributing to a grand spectacle. At the end, when we had learned as much as could be taught of the particular tasks we had chosen to take up we were sent off to fend for ourselves in the wider commerce of the world...
Like my classmates. I have for the past quarter century engaged in that wider commerce, at Harvard and elsewhere. For the past eight years I have had responsibility for the well being of the current generation of undergraduates in the College. As we did, they find at Harvard a wide range of opportunities, successes and disappointments to fill their lives...