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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University's 45,000 students are housed in dorms. In addition, labs are ill-equipped, textbooks long outdated, libraries usually closed. Says Student Union President Christos Papoutsis about Law 815: "It's like trying to construct a building from the second floor up, having forgotten to put in the foundations and the first floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: On the March | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Whether by taxation or rationing, cutting back on gasoline would jolt an economy in which the jobs of one worker in seven somehow spin around the automotive industry. Millions of Americans not only build, sell and service cars but also supply the tires, windows and other parts, construct highways, drive trucks or otherwise deliver the goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Considers a Gas Tax | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...your gift recipient is exclusively a swimmer, Sakowitz will construct a 734-sq.-ft. Texas-shaped swimming pool filled with 30,687 gallons of Perrier water for $127,174.32. You provide the twist of lime...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Harvard holds stocks in 18 companies that process nuclear fuel, construct or maintain nuclear utilities, or operate some of the country's 70 licensed nuclear power plants. The largest investments are in five of the nation's major oil firms...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Bok Rejects Anti-Nuke Stand, Opposes Initiation of Proxies | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

Harvard has more than $180 million invested in 18 nuclear companies that process nuclear fuel, construct or maintain nuclear facilities, and operate some of the country's 70 licensed nuclear plants. The University may have to reexamine these previously uncontroversial investments...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard's Nuclear Ties | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

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