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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit," wrote American educator Bronson Alcott. Whittle Communications couldn't agree more. The Knoxville-based company plans to publish a series of books that will contain a radically new profit-making device: advertising. While paperbacks have sometimes been sprinkled with ads, such come-ons have almost never appeared between hard covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: This Chapter Paid for by . . . | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

They say that endorsing ROTC violates both the council constitution and Harvard policy, which each contain clauses prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: A Week the Council Will Never Forget | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...this pseudo-theorizing. Now, I'm not an expert on baseball, but I know that Major League is a lot of fun. The baseball parts are exciting, the locker-room antics are funny and the love parts, as the veteran catcher trys to get back together with hisex-wife, contain an element of truth...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Taking a Swing at the Movies | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

...They have one player that's doing a lot of their work for them," Co-Captain Katie McAnaney said. "But she didn't really give us a problem last year, and we just have to contain her again...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen and Big Green to Meet at Ohiri | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...motor home, stripped of furniture and crammed with glassware and supplies, was parked in the trees next to a friend's lake-side shack. "They skied and chased girls while I cooked," Bernard remembers. This was no home- kitchen production with towels stuffed under the door to contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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