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...Crimson's chances for post season play continue and diminish knew as much after the game...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Soccer Squads Fall to New England Powers | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...personal computer craze may yet, as its eager avatars assert, revolutionize a college education, but it has done nothing to diminish the importance of the egalitarian principles a good education is supposed to stand for. And amidst the hoopla and anticipation over the impending computerization of the Harvard campus, it is precisely the idea of egalitarianism that may most be threatened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...personal computer craze may yet, as its eager avatars assert, revolutionize a college education, but it has done nothing to diminish the importance of the egalitarian principles a good education is supposed to stand for. And amidst the hoopla and anticipation over the impending computerization of the Harvard campus, it is precisely the idea of egalitarianism that may most be threatened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...misguided cynics cannot diminish the pride that we Americans have received from the Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Sears | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...military in 1972, then beaten by soldiers and banished to Venezuela for seven years, Duarte, 58, last June became El Salvador's first freely elected civilian President in more than 50 years. Since then, he has hurled himself into an agenda of nearly impossible tasks. He had to diminish the activities of the death squads, many of them linked to the military, in a country that lacked an effective judicial system to prosecute the murderers. He had to continue fighting a five-year-old civil war against leftist rebels and still assert his control over the sometimes recalcitrant armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Darkness Before Dawn | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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