Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THAT'S why I wish my activist friends would get the news. Rent control hurts the most vulnerable members of society for the benefit of a few people who get "a good deal" on their rents. It's the classic example of the "pull-up-the-ladder syndrome," as Washington Monthly editor Charles Peters calls psuedo-liberal programs that hurt the folks at the bottom...
...trouble with the pilot-management buyoutof the parent of United Airlines that sparkedFriday's 190-point plunge in the Dow. The UALCorp. bidders continued scrambling yesterday toput together a new deal as the stock plummeted $53a share to $226.75 in late trading...
...betraying its own conscience and remaining exclusively male only so that it may keep its national charter, Sigma Alpha Mu faces the problem every new national fraternity attempting to start at Harvard must deal with: do the benefits of national recognition really outweigh the inability of local officers and members to dictate their own organizations...
...rhythm -- lots of rhythm -- that accounts for the new craze, and a good deal of the beat comes from the state of Bahia. There, in the Brazilian equivalent of the American Deep South, African tribal dances are blended with European sounds to create the insistent samba; the afoxe, associated with the Afro-Roman Catholic Candomble religion; and the chugging, accordion-dominated forro, which blends African rhythms with Portuguese folk music. Says U.S. guitarist Arto Lindsay, co-producer with Peter Scherer of the latest album by an eminent Brazilian performer, Caetano Veloso: "In Bahia and the north you find the purest...
...beginning to dominate. The company bought the electronics-kit maker Heath in 1979 and expanded the division to include a line of laptop computers. Zenith's machines are now among the world's best sellers, bringing in about 60% of the company's revenues of $2.7 billion. With this deal, Bull will become the largest European-based computer maker...