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...years ago, the Justice Department began its investigation of the Overlap Group, a now-defunct organization of 23 colleges which included all the Ivy League institutions as well as private colleges like Amherst, Williams, and Bowdoin. The group met annually to decide on financial aid offers to students accepted by more than one of the member institutions...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: STAYING AFLOAT AFTER OVERLAP | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

...area. The Administration has already delivered a number of other pot sweeteners to New Hampshire. In early December the state received an accelerated payment of Medicaid funds that will balance its budget. The State Department has announced that a visa-processing office will operate on the grounds of the defunct air base. Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration has designated New Hampshire the first state to benefit from a lending program that will compensate for the shortage of commercial credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hampshire | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...even the new version is likely to meet with widespread hostility in a town still traumatized by the massive layoffs during the early 1980s at the John Deere Dubuque Works and the now defunct Dubuque Packing Co. Though unemployment stands below the national average and tourism has nearly doubled in the past year thanks to riverboat gambling, few Dubuquers feel secure. "People believe the pie is shrinking, and they are not in the mood to share their piece," says Giunta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race Relations: A White Person's Town? | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

This, despite the fact that the Society's incessant virulence has now become as predictable as that of the defunct Palestine Liberation Organization; there is hardly any wonder why their political stances throughout the past have borne uncanny similarities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Society of Pan-Arabists | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...directors, who have been roommates for two years, met during their Orientation Week at the introductory meeting for the Subterranean Review, the now-defunct socialist magazine...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: No Justice for This Working Man! | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

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