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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time when Tree bit Danny Ainge. When Laimbeer roamed the plains. Maxwell did his rubber band act. Moses never got called for a foul. Parish never stopped running the floor. Len Bias stopped living...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

...ongoing Justice Department probe into alleged antitrust violations by American universities is one such example of this bias, says Spence...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Financing Higher Education's Future | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

These students proposed different theories that explain the lack of romance at Harvard, which I shall now present objectively without any shred of bias...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Romance at Harvard? Yeah, Right. | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Political pundits have vied to quantify what is virtually unknowable: the precise number of Democratic-leaning white Virginians who could not bring themselves to vote for a black candidate. Polls are unreliable on this point, since few voters are secure enough in their bigotry to confess such blatant bias. Wilder strategists, perhaps reflecting their candidate's de-emphasis of racial issues, argue that their putative lead was always exaggerated. "In none of our polling did we expect to have Doug much over 51%," says Wilder pollster Mike Donilon. In other words, if the election was always destined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough In Virginia Dougas Wilder | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Stuart Markowitz is my favorite," says another, confessing his bias for the good-hearted tax attorney. "But," he quickly adds, "all of my friends say I'm going to be more like Arnie Becker." On last week's episode, Becker--the firm's resident womanizer--sold out a seven-year-old girl to bring in a hefty...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: `L.A. Law': An HLS Corporate Fantasy | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

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