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...medium-range missiles from Europe over a five-year period. Washington would withdraw 108 Pershing IIs and 464 ground-launched cruise missiles, while Moscow would dismantle 270 SS-20 missiles. The Soviets have 112 SS-4 missiles in Europe, but these are being replaced by more advanced SS-20s. Both sides would then be limited to 100 medium-range warheads, the Soviets on their Asian territory, the Americans on U.S. soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament Let's Make a Deal | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...Wall Street wizards who choose not to go in for illegal tactics aren't--and won't be--swayed by one course they were forced to endure back in school. Ethical sensibilities are the product of an extended formation and MBA students already in their middle to late 20s have for the most part made their fundamental decisions about their responsibilities to society...

Author: By John M. Glazer, | Title: Teaching Ethics | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...proposal would affect the 316 U.S. Pershing 2 and cruise missiles deployed in Western Europe and Soviet SS-20s. Western officials estimate 441 SS-20s are deployed in the Soviet Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S., Soviets Continue Negotiations | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

Moses and Olentwala and the American set off from the boma one morning to spend the day out in the hills with 140 head of high-humped Boran cattle. Moses carried his long-bladed lion-killing spear. Olentwala, a man in his early 20s who had never been a warrior, carried a less lethal-looking spear, lighter, with less metal on the killing end. They held in their left hands the club-shaped rungu and a walking stick of olive wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Student Six: I am what is called a Euro. I have an asymmetrical, dyed hairstyle and tend to wear clothing from the 20s. Sometimes I wonder aloud why we are even sitting in this class, for indeed we are all going to die someday, and then what? I think section discussions are all so pedestrian, for I once read a book by T.S. Eliot and then debated its relevance to the underground music movement over a cup of coffee and a clove cigarette at a nameless cafe with a man wearing a beret-like hat. I too sometimes wear...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

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