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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allow the universities' point that a bidding war would ensue if they did not set awards. If competition forced the big schools to work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: An Illiberal Practice | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...YORK--Wall Street averted another Black Monday and had a Blue Chip day instead,as some of the heaviest trading in history produced a rally in big-name stocks and losses in many smaller issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feared Market Crash Turns Into Big Rally | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

Traders said the stock market benefited fromthe experience gained in the 1987 crash. The NewYork Stock Exchange managed to handle the heavytrading volume because of a big investment intechnology made after the crash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feared Market Crash Turns Into Big Rally | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

Women's Update: After blanking the Big Red, 1-0, last Saturday in Ithaca, the Harvard women's soccer team will host nationally-ranked UMass (9-2-2) today at Ohiri Field for a 3 p.m. showdown...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Ivy Race Goes on and on | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...other patients is threatened. Says Bellevue's Dr. Lewis Goldfrank: "There is going to be hospital gridlock by 1990, because there's not enough long-term, short-term or emergency-care space for AIDS patients. I think they're eventually going to fill every hospital bed in the big cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Who Should Foot the AIDS Bill? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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