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Perhaps only someone who has been raised in Europe can understand the psychological impact of the dollar's fall. People in foreign countries often equate a country's political might and will with the strength of its money. Every time the dollar declines, concern rises abroad about America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strategy for the Dollar | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

In their home opener in Boston, the Celtics pulled of an "almost miracle," cutting a 21-point, third-quarter Cavalier lead to just one point with less than 30 seconds to go. But Foot Walker's breakaway layup with five seconds remaining turned back the Celtics.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAVALIERS 104, CELTICS 101 | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

The messages behind Chagall's prints are elusive--inevitable in abstract art--and at times one even wonders whether or not the artist is playing a huge joke, saying: Here is a man, ('L'Artiste Phenix) with the profile of the Emperor Constantine attached to a horse's head--now...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

Agile Hands. Indeed, Certain People is so flawed that it is hard to decide where to find fault first-in Birmingham's cavalier disregard for documentation or in the complacent banality of his observations. For example, he traces the current class distinctions among blacks to the old divisions between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Deep | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Administrators were even more cavalier in their regard for input on the subject from the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. Last year, CHUL voted 20 to 2 against the limited breakfast option. To avoid this kind of conflagration this year, Fox presented the plan to CHUL for discussion after...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Eating It | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

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