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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finish up about three to six months of testing the engines before it can get its final operating permit from the state. Residents of neighboring Brookline and Mission Hill--who have been battling MATEP since 1975--say they will go to Superior Court once more to keep the diesels dead...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, Michael W. Hirschorn, and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: The Spring Ahead: II | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

PLAYING: Remember last year's Grateful Dead-turned sour-turned R.E.M. concert? It was one of the first appearances at Harvard by a big name band, and council members were reported to be working last term to swing the Temptations for a concert this spring. Whether they'll come through is still unclea, but the council's social committee has acted to unsure enlivining student life in at least some fashion this semester. About $4000, half the social slice of the government's $60,000 pie, has been set aside to distribute to House committees for sponsoring campus wide House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Faces a Full Agenda | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

...mean, giggly detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill them. The detective has a better idea. He'll kill his client instead, pocket the ten grand and frame the intended victims as the murderers. Just two problems: Ray, not the police, finds Marty's corpse; and Marty is not quite dead. So Ray, thinking that Abby did the deed to be with him, must finish the detective's messy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Same Old Song Blood Simple | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Suny Red Tape | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...movie called Surviving, the youths feel increasingly beleaguered and estranged from the world. Depressed and hopeless, they take a drastic step. One night they sneak into her parents' garage, huddle together on the front seat of the family car and start the engine. The next morning they are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Troubles on the Home Front | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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