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Word: cards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINE you go to the Coop this afternoon to buy a textbook. When you give the clerk your credit card, he suddenly calls Harvard Book Store and Wordsworth to ask about your credit limit...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Truth From Harvard's Trust-Busters | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...tuition charges, they say, merely reflect their own increasing expenses. In particular, they cite soaring costs for building construction and maintenance; salary-inflating battles to woo and keep top-flight faculty members, especially in science and business; and the dizzying price of keeping up with technology, ranging from computerized card catalogs to the latest in lab paraphernalia. Hardware and faculty often go hand in hand: when Duke lured physicist John Madey away from Stanford, it promised to build a lab for his free-electron laser research. Cost: $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sticker Shock at the Ivory Tower | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...point, Crimson striker Dave Kramer was decked from behind. Surely the whistel-happy referee couldn't let this one go. Of course not. He called a foul on Kramer, and later tacked on a yellow card to boot...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Booters Brave the Big Apple | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...City's Dial-A-Dinner. Its clients order by telephone from the menu of one of the 30 restaurants on its list. About an hour later, a tuxedo-clad waiter appears, bearing large shopping bags full of plastic containers and a bill -- usually well over $100 -- payable by credit card. "I'm known as the doctor of delivery," declares David Blum, 31, the entrepreneur who started Dial-A-Dinner 18 months ago. Now he has 22 people, 15 cars and six vans, all radio equipped, hurtling about 200 dinners a night across Manhattan. Among Blum's culinary suppliers are Petrossian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Dashing Way to Dine | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...Alissa Kingsbury says, "It has been a little intimidating for me. I'm used to 100 people in my class, in a place where I don't need an I.D. card to get in everywhere and where there are no lines...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Getting to Know You? | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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