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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hard to swallow, difficult to digest and often painful to look at, the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services (HDS) are in need of radical overhaul...Among college dining services, HDS is still a lemon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Crimson | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Things have gone so far that getting your home featured in Architectural Digest, an honor to die for in the '80s, is considered tacky. After all, most of the homes are not so much designed as crammed with very expensive clutter. Interior decorators are outre, and making slipcovers and clothes for the children seems to be gaining favor. Fabri-Centers of America, a chain of 620 fabric stores in 35 states, reports that earnings have grown 72% in the past year, from $5.1 million to $8.8 million, while revenues are up 15%, to $333 million. Chairman Alan Rosskamm attributes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunkering Down | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

Hard to swallow, difficult to digest and often painful to look at, the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services (HDS) are in need of radical overhaul...Among college dining services, HDS is still a lemon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Record | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...centuries, Harvard's food has been the deserving butt of campus humor and ill will. In 1638, the first headmaster of the College was fired after serving the students poor quality food. Sad to say, conditions have not improved considerably since. Hard to swallow, difficult to digest and often painful to look at, the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services are in need of radical overhaul. Several improvements over the past few years have upgraded the quality of Harvard's menu. But among college dining services, Harvard Dining Services is still a lemon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room for Improvement | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

Channel One, the latest brainchild of Knoxville media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle, began daily broadcasts last week to 400 junior and senior high schools. (An additional 2,500 have signed up, and will be on board by late May.) Each twelve-minute show provides a digest of the previous day's news, tailored for teens. Few educators dispute the value of such a show in teaching kids about world affairs. Nor do they deny the appeal of Whittle's sales pitch: for every school that agrees to take Channel One, Whittle will donate the satellite and video equipment needed to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Battle over Classroom TV | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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