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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows his customers pretty well. "I go to their trailer homes," he says. "I eat with them in greasy spoons. There's a basic honesty about these people that's missing from those corporate types. These people have their dreams just like I do. No one should take your dreams from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Filling the Hours with Bingo ! | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Winfield has top billing for now. He's the smash new musical on Broadway. George is so off-Broadway now that he couldn't even sell his act for P.S. 8's third-grade musical revue on the four basic food groups...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Davey and George | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

...most basic rights that we have called on the Soviets to comply with," the president said, "are the right to emigrate and the right to travel. How can we help but doubt a government that mistrusts its own people and holds them against their will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan: Senate May Impede Arms Talks | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

Carol B. Emert '88, also of the Pitches, says that it is a challenge to get a real laugh, especially for all-female groups. Emert says audiences expect female groups to be more tasteful. "A basic question always is. "What can we, as women, get away with...

Author: By Christopher G. Azzoli, | Title: Harvard's Vaudeville: Groups Hit High Note | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...decided to do it because I wanted the practical experience for cases," Haire says. "It's less prestigious. It's a basic decision on what you want to do. If you want nuts-and-bolts lawyering you don't get at the Law Review, you can do the Bureau. It's a guess where your talents and interests...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Taking the Law to the People | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

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