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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chaudhuri says ODN is aware of the limited help which American students can provide and it seeks to emphasize the value of the experience as a way of raising consciousness in America about world poverty. "ODN's immediate aim is to expose students to poverty abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Network Aids the Third World | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

...Italy, those whose political strategy is to drive others to riot are put in jail. In America, we can recognize those whose aim is agitation rather than presentation of their views. But--appropriately--we can do very little more...

Author: By Kevin M. Malisani, | Title: Coping with the Conservative Club | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...statuesque white-tailed buck grazes along a roadside in rural Virginia. Passing hunters slow their cars, aim their high-powered rifles out the window and fire -- then fire again when the deer neither falls nor flees. Three police cruisers suddenly surround the cars, and the hapless hunters discover they are the targets of a sting dubbed Bambiscam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poachers: Rising to the Bait | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...securities, Eurobonds, commodities and foreign exchange, will be governed by a series of self-regulatory organizations. Their activity, in turn, will be supervised by the Securities Investment Board, a private-sector body whose decisions are backed by the force of the law. Says SIB Chairman Sir Kenneth Berrill: "The aim in the U.K. was to get the rules applied and interpreted by practitioners, and not by lawyers." Now, even some Conservative Party members feel that a tough U.S.-style Securities and Exchange Commission is needed. Says former Prime Minister Edward Heath: "I do not believe that the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearing That Muck Will Stick | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

While not saying when Brazil might resume payments, Sarney expressed willingness to negotiate an interest formula that his country could meet without risking "recession and social crisis." He never used the word default and insisted his aim was not confrontation: "Brazil does not wish to be an autarkic economy outside the world community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Blood in the Stone | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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