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"This is the first year that I'm taking classes pass/fail because I knew I wouldn't be able to devote as much time to classes as I normally would," says Powell, a biology concentrator.

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Admissions Angst for Future Physicians | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

City officials described Fitzgerald, who will take over the department's management after Scott retires on March 31, as a hard worker who will devote time and energy to his job managing the department's nine stations and more than 280 employees.

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: City Appoints New Fire Chief | 12/4/1990 | See Source »

The biggest complaint of consumers, though, is that there is so much paper invading their homes. Over the course of a lifetime, the average American professional will devote eight entire months to sifting through mail solicitations. Third-class mail is now a nearly 4 million-ton colossus that accounts for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Direct Mail: Read This!!!!!!!! | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

It was in this context that we decided it was time to prepare an entire issue on women. The subject is familiar to TIME readers. In 1972 we published a magazine almost wholly devoted to the American woman. In recent years, while following women's trials and triumphs in our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Managing Editor: Nov 1 1990 | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Would-be career women face equally great obstacles at home, where men feel no obligation to pitch in. A 1986 government survey of dual-career couples found that men devote only eight minutes of a workday to household chores and child rearing, compared with 3 1/2 hours for their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Equality? | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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