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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These problems affect predominantly female Harvard students, but many men also suffer with eating problems. People who have a disorder can suffer severely; it can psychologically and physically control their lives, drawing them into a cycle which is difficult to escape...
...England regional head of the Stanley Kaplan Education Center, Susan B. Kaplan, said she does not think the new question will affect the demand for prep courses. The Kaplan course costs $400 and runs for eight weeks, with one four-to-five-hour class per week...
...finding more oil are declining at the moment because tumbling prices have forced oil companies to slash their exploration and drilling budgets. Last week Ohio-based Standard Oil said that it will spend only about $450 million this year looking for crude, a 50% cut from 1985. The cutbacks affect not only the U.S., but also the allies from which it buys oil. In Britain's offshore fields, observes Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, "concern is starting to center on a spending slowdown that could leave the North Sea industry ill equipped to pick up again...
...Wall Street investment firm: "The price of the paraxylene that Celanese uses to make polyester has just begun to weaken. It takes a while for the market to figure out how far down derivative prices must go." For Detroit, the big question is how the oil-price decline will affect car-buying habits. Most industry experts do not expect a sharp shift toward big cars. They believe that the sticker price of a car, rather than how much it may cost to operate the auto, is what customers now think about most when they enter a showroom. Whatever models consumers...
...tests. If the U.S. rejected the offer and continued testing, Gorbachev warned, the Kremlin would end its self-imposed eight-month moratorium. New nuclear tests by both sides, following a long series of diplomatic developments that have shaken relations between the superpowers over the past few months, would deeply affect an even more fundamental question: Can anything be preserved of the accommodative "spirit of Geneva" that emerged from the Reagan-Gorbachev summit only five months...