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...number of men still missing and the dim prospects for finding them alive seem certain to make the Piper Alpha explosion the worst oil rig disaster ever, surpassing the 123 deaths when the Alexander L. Kielland platform capsized in Norway's North Sea waters in March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Rig Explosion Kills as Many as 166 | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...something so personal about this summit, the President explains. Systems may be brutish, bureaucrats may fail. But men can sometimes transcend all that, transcend even the forces of history that seem destined to keep them apart. The idea that he would ever go to Moscow was only a dim possibility until he met Gorbachev. Then it sprang to life in an intimate inkling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Good Chemistry | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...artistic prospects for next year seem dim. It's hard to anticipate greatness after a year in which the Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III declared that Spenser for Hire was quality television, a year in which the Advocate published a parody of the New Yorker and nobody got the joke, a year in which the city of Cambridge silenced Harvard Square street folk singer Luke because a city councillor thought he attracted skinheads. Still, there is enough creativity and activity on campus to insure more innovation--to make us think, or at least keep us awake...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: The Changing of the Avant-Garde | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...answer: greater spending by the West Europeans. With a combined gross domestic product of $4.3 trillion, they are as strong economically as the U.S., and their total population of 374 million is one-third larger than that of the U.S. The likelihood that defense outlays will increase is dim, however, since European economic growth rates are slowing. Another inhibiting factor, a senior U.S. official notes, is that "arms talks are making progress and detente is in the air." And just as crises tend to pull NATO together, any easing of East-West tensions tends to magnify the forces pulling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nato: Alliance a la Carte? | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Another league loss, and the Crimson's prospects for Ivy and national glory will dim considerably. Harvard will resume its Ivy schedule April 20, when it faces Brown in Providence...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Crimson Set to Boot Panthers | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

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