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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traders, retailers and carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers who run the business started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...every lunch and dinner for the past three years, my roommate turns on all his Texas charm and asks whether he can get me some ice cream. "Whoops!" he pretends to remember. "You can't digest it! HAHAHAHAHA! [slurp...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Liberty, Equality, Ice Cream | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...inviting 10 or more people to my house for dinner, would you recommend a dry red wine with a grilled fish Marsailles...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Leave it to Davis to Shake up the NFL | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

...think the most impressive thing is that we have fellowship advisors in each of the 13 houses literally available to the students right at the dinner table," Leape said. "I don't know of any other school which offers that kind of support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

Most of all, I wanted to avoid my own sense of helplessness and frustration. But I had a responsibility to carry out, so I did my duty, and after dinner I fled, paroled until next week...

Author: By Gloria M. Custodio, | Title: Pushing Against Apathy | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

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