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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AT a faculty meeting two weeks ago, Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes presented an interesting and convincing objection to Harvard's plan to build a hotel on the Quincy Square spot currently occupied by the Gulf station. Landes asked why, when the University is having so much trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spacing Out | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

A former management consultant who helped broker the merger between American Motors Corp. and Renault, Hoagland reflects a view that seems to be sweeping the newspaper industry. Confronted by a long-term slump in circulation and intensifying competition with other media for advertising revenue, many newspaper executives are beginning to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Who's Running the Newsroom? | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

The gold is media saturation, not great reviews. In the movie business, the still, small voice of the critic is . . . still small. The movie-critic TV shows -- Siskel & Ebert and their clones -- have some influence, at least as consumer alerts, because they devote much of their time to running film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Does This Film Seem Familiar? | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

He says that the show also provides these skaters an opportunity to experience, for a brief time, what college life is like. Several of the famous skaters are of college age but do not attend school because they devote all their time to the sport.

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Skating and Partying With the Stars | 11/3/1988 | See Source »

Soft money cannot legally be spent to promote a candidate directly -- to put an "Elect Bush" ad on TV, for example. But the funds can be used for more general purposes such as conducting polls, organizing voter-registration drives or buying "Vote Republican" ads. The Democrats plan to use some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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