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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very least, I wanted people to footnote the fact in speech, to remind themselves and their listeners of its origin. Realizing the impossibility of this, I am content merely with restating my legend. I promise to say no more on the subject...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: An Urban Legend | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...Dart Group's offer to acquire Supermarkets General for $1.6 billion would join two retailers. Dart owns discount auto-parts stores and book outlets, while Supermarkets General specializes in food and drugs. Some analysts suspect that the Haft family, which controls the Dart Group, would be perfectly content to stop short of an actual merger and sell its current shares in Supermarkets General at a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Said Takeovers Were Dead? | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Over the years, freshmen were not content to use the union simply for its culinary offerings. Several of the outrageous antics that Harvard became known for started in the union...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

Andrew R. Jassy '90 seems content with viewing the Union in these terms. "I go to the Union when I'm hungry," he says...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...groups have been content to live with in the American salad bowl. In Cities on a Hill, FitzGerald--who is running this spring for a position on Harvard's Board of Overseers on a University-nominated slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...

Author: By John F. Lambros, | Title: Visions of Utopia | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

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