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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most major Hollywood studios still produce Beta versions of their movies, retail stores and rental shops devote most of their shelf space these days to the more popular (and more profitable) newly released VHS versions of such films as Roxanne and Tin Men. But as the ranks of Beta devotees thin out, they have one small consolation. They will face less competition in renting the Beta ) tapes still available. When they want to check out that well-worn Beta copy of Annie Hall, Star Wars or the very first Rocky movie, it is almost always on the shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye Beta: Sony will make VHS players | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

The official word on Reading Period, as we all know, is that it's the time after vacation and before finals during which classes do not meet and students may devote themselves to studying for finals. If this were true then our "vacation" would not be so bad--we would...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Reading Period Blues | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

Not everyone would exonerate him completely. Year after year, he asked for less money to fight AIDS than Congress eventually voted, and not until this year did he devote a single speech exclusively to the disaster. And as Randy Shilts wrote in a widely praised 1987 book, And the Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roughest Year | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

This is probably the reason that Levi seldom uses the word Holocaust, a term that has come to invite an automatic and generalized response at the expense of the particular. Levi provides the wire, barking guards, sadistic Kapos and the ovens, which, we learn with devastating offhandedness, were manufactured by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War Against Forgetfulness THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Although these situations have occurred in the past, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) hopes to avoid repetitions, so they devote a great deal of time to assigning freshmen to rooming groups.

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Suites For Strangers | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

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