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Dressed in a meticulously tailored three-piece suit with a muffler tossed around his neck as though he were a Princeton undergraduate, Brown presented himself as an alternative to discontented voters. He said that if people do not want to vote for him, they should at least stay uncommitted. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And Now It Begins--Sort Of | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

After a decade, the department has one and one-half tenured professors and eight concentrators. Since 1971, the number of concentrators has dropped 76 per cent and course enrollment 58 per cent. Its junior faculty is discontented and its students are furious. Last spring, while Eileen Southern, the chairman of...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: A Last-Ditch Effort for Afro-Am | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Shanghai is losing the battle to induce its discontented young people to return to $24-a-month stints in remote regions and is allowing them to apply for local jobs. So is Peking, which has reduced its unemployment by placing youths in appliance repair centers and handicraft workshops. Last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Jobless Generation | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

With no solution in sight for Israel's economic crisis, Begin's government will be increasingly vulnerable to challenge from the opposition, from discontented Liberals and from restive members of his own Herut Party, like mercurial Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. Recognizing that it is all a healthy Begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Flags, Flare-Ups, Fiscal Troubles | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Van Andel started Amway in 1959 with Richard DeVos, a Grand Rapids high school chum who is now president and the other co-owner of the company. The two had joined a number of small enterprises after World War II, including a restaurant, a flying school, a commercial air charter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Amway's Way | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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