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Although a public perception that PBHA was not radical enough to suit the times was a large reason for the drop in membership, a financial crunch that led to the elimination of five programs before the 1970-1971 school year also played a role in its decline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Struggle for the Survival of Public Service at Harvard | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...game play so startling that his target market would feel they just had to have it was to concentrate on speed--sticking to fast (but expensive) silicon cartridges as his storage medium and leapfrogging ahead to the next-generation 64-bit processors. (The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo are 16-bit systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPER MARIO'S DAZZLING COMEBACK | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...doesn't get blindsided by the fairly independent, free-thinking GOP freshmen in the House." Or by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, whose clever maneuvering in recent has sidetracked votes on several key issues, denying Dole the legislative victories he needs. With his campaign facing a severe budget crunch Dole's best option is still to make his case on the Senate floor. "If he were to take his campaign out from the Senate, where would he go? And how would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dole Camp Searches For Compass | 5/1/1996 | See Source »

With more than 200 cereal products fighting it out on the shelves--it can get ugly when Cap'n Crunch takes on Count Chocula at the A&P--lower prices would seem to be a natural result. Yet competition hasn't worked that way with cereals, though it has in other categories. (Prices of Coke and Pepsi are cheaper in real terms than they were a decade ago.) That is because the cereal manufacturers have been using consumers to finance what has become a very expensive marketing war. So as prices inflate, the companies use the additional money--about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEREAL SHOWDOWN | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...semester is crunch time," Hursh explained while eating a chickwich, "I would have done it at a different time...

Author: By Alexander D. Laskey, | Title: Assassin! | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

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