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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic problems stemmed from a six-month, $162 million overhaul that gave the QE2 modern diesel engines and revamped its accommodations. An official of the Cunard Line, which owns the 18-year-old ocean liner, said it was assumed that the renovated ship would suffer "teething problems." But their unexpected magnitude will take a $1 million bite out of Cunard's revenues in partial refunds offered to customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cruise That Had the Blues | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...House and Senate select committees, which are sitting as a joint body, resembled a good-cop-tough-cop routine. Secord was first questioned for two days by John Nields, counsel for the House panel, who for the most part tried simply to elicit the former general's basic story by posing questions of the please-describe-that-meeting variety. Secord related that North had asked him in the summer of 1985 to put together a private network to take over the delivery of arms to the contras after Congress had $ passed its ban. Just as he was getting his group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Ran the Show | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...basic charges at Harvard and Radcliffe for a resident student are as follows...

Author: By Heather R. Mcleod, | Title: Financing a College Education: Higher Costs, Less Aid | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...summer job dilemma, like everything else, can be broken down into three basic parts. These are: if, what, and where. First, you have to decide if you are going to work at all this summer. After all, it's the only time of year you can lay a proper base tan. And it may be the last chance you'll have to mooch completely off your parents...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Summertime Blues | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...Boston Literacy Initiative runs a 15-neighborhood program for adults, which teaches its 1400 students at levels ranging from basic literacy to a high school diploma equivalency program, Kallenbach said...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: City to Create Literacy Endowment | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

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