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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, Fox says that higher education is almost a $100 billion industry nation wide and that current trends will make it bigger demanding better financing...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Cashing in on Student Loans | 2/22/1984 | See Source »

...crash of boards echoed all night, but some of the toughest checking took place in mid-ice. Martin, who's listed at 6-ft., 2-in., 175 lbs. but plays a lot bigger, ripped the helmet off Yale center Morrie Tobin early in the first period...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Icemen Score Practical Win By Tying Second-Place Yale | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center stage only to belt out three or four of Kander and Ebb's snazzier songs, while the rest of The Rink skates along on the momentum of uninspired professionalism. But Chita Rivera's high-voltage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Coney Island of the Mind | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...tonight at 9 p.m. at Northeastern's Matthews Arena, the women of the Harvard ice hockey team will try for the third straight year to do it--to wrest the Beanpot from a bigger, stronger, faster and more skilled Northeastern team...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Icewomen Shoot for the Beans -- Again | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with 18 m.p.g. for the larger vans. But the new vans can carry only 1,700 lbs., vs. 2,600 lbs. for the bigger versions. Acceleration is also somewhat sluggish, since the minivans use the same 2.2-liter engine as Chrysler's small K-cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Maxirush to Chrysler's Minivans | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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