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...Homosexual activity is a blight on society," psychologist Paul Cameron told a largely hostile crowd of 300, according to the Massachusetts Daily Collegian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

Despite his frequent trans-global excursions Dewitt spends a lot of time hangin' out in New York City observing urban decay and blight at its finest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Can't Fool Mother Nature | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

American farmers are hardy survivors, used to contending with the vagaries of weather and blight. But as TIME correspondents toured agricultural regions last week, they found farmers uncharacteristically frightened by changes in the U.S. economy and impending shifts in Government policy. A sampling of their moods and situations follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinging to the Land | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Most of this book is not a description of Dartmouth drinking habits, but a dissection of the blight of liberalism at the Hanover, New Hampshire campus. Slings and arrows fly at many targets in Poisoned Ivy--the Dartmouth administration, mushy-headed liberals, activists of any kind, modern education--but the main point of this rather pointy book is simply that conservatives have more, well...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: It Couldn't Happen Here | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...million (the equivalent of more than $60 million today) to eradicate. Poorer regions such as Mexico and Asia, however, which cannot afford to burn groves, are frequently plagued by canker. And with an active source of infection in the world, it was only a matter of time before the blight invaded the U.S. once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Orange Flames of Florida | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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