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...would chalk it up to a cheap publicity stunt--very cheap," Achin said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Protest Award for Nixon At Bates College | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

...Administration seemed to chalk up a qualified victory last week in the first major union settlement under President Carter's wage guidelines. After tense talks, the oilworkers finally wrapped up an agreement with Gulf Oil and Amoco. The deal more or less stays within the White House wage standard, which calls for a limit of 7% on pay and new benefit increases over the life of a contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Guidelines Pass a Test | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...ahead of the dorks on your hall, even if they got higher SAT's than you did. Don't sweat it--after all, you were just put here because no one else admitted on their application to...well, I won't embarrass you, let's just chalk it up to diversity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tuned-Up Tuna Hits Town | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...Actor Jack Nicholson put in a successful bid of $7,728 for a Tiepolo chalk sketch. French Idol Alain Delon also bid on old master drawings, but came away emptyhanded. "The prices were very high," he said. "Not too high for me, but for the pictures." When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sale of the Century | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Sooner than you can lay down foul lines, unleashed dogs patrol the Yard dropping obstacles all over your potential basepaths. Before you can chalk in the coaching boxes, B & G fences off all the sod at Harvard into polygons, triangles, and other high school subjects...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: When a Young Man's Fancy Turns to Whiffleball | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

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