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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Modeled after best-sellers aimed at the booming young adult market, like the preppy guide and How To Eat Like a Ktd, Stone says he hopes Zit Wars will debunk "the myths and phobias on acne." The book also will offer an inexpensive acne-fighting regimen using over-the counter treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Signs Contract for Zit Book | 10/17/1984 | See Source »

Hoping to raise $5,000 for charity organizations and to debunk what they called a reputation as selfish profit maximizers, several business school student organizations last night kicked off a weekend of charity fund-raising activities...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: B-School Groups Beef-Up Their Philanthropist Image | 10/12/1984 | See Source »

...expressed more than mixed feelings. Moderated by the presiding dean of of American sociology. Ford Professor of Social Sciences emeritus David Riesman M. ex-officials addressed the question "How Much Authority Does a College President Really Have?" Like most questions punctuated with reality, the question begs answers that will debunk certain myths--or denials so complete they invited suspicion where none existed before...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Checks and Balances | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

...authors, Billie Wright Dzeich and Linda Weiner, two administrators at the University of Cincinnati, are more than just clear thinking, reasonable and forceful, they are also comprehensive. What I had thought was a personal and idiosyncratic reaction, they have identified as a syndrome and proceeded to debunk as one of the many tangled and self destructive myths associated with the messy issue of sexual harassment...

Author: By Amy. E. Schwartz, | Title: Clearing Up the Harassment Mystique | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...Read is intended for a textbook and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of secondhand yawp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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