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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show of support for the departing Vorenberg, the faculty voted unanimously in April to accept the planning report, "which doesn't happen very often at Harvard Law School," as one administrator notes...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: A Confident Vision in Turbulent Times | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Lawyers for the Legal Action Center for the Homeless claim that though the law requires stores to take up to 240 returns a day per customer, some refuse to accept more than ten. The suit alleges that grocers have given in to pressure from beverage bottlers and distributors not to accept the containers so that the distributors can keep unclaimed deposits, which last year totaled nearly $80 million. Bottlers say supermarkets don't want to hassle with returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homeless: Battle of The Bottle | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Wilson] has said she will accept if the Board of Trustees approves her, but decisions are never final until the Board takes its oath," Horner said last night. Horner--Radcliffe's youngest president when she was selected in 1972--said the 53-year-old Michigan administrator has worked with her in the past and is unlikely to face opposition from the Board...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Wilson Selected as New Radcliffe President | 5/31/1989 | See Source »

...considering whether to approve the use of BST amid rising protests from concerned dairy states. Wisconsin's agriculture secretary has proposed a moratorium of up to three years on the use of BST while its economic consequences are studied, and several dairy cooperatives in | California said they will not accept BST-treated milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Furious Battle over Milk | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Jordache were triggered by tips supplied by Guess to one of the most powerful IRS officials on the West Coast: Ronald Saranow, who then headed the Los Angeles office of the service's criminal-investigation division. Saranow later asked to take an unpaid leave from the IRS to accept a job at Guess. More than three years have passed since the raid, and no tax charge has been brought against Jordache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delinquent Taxmen | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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