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...department did not urge U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to dismiss the major charge that North, former national security adviser John M. Poindexter and two arms dealers defrauded the government by illegally diverting U.S.-Iran arms-sale profits to the Contras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Justice Department Stands by North | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...sensible readers will dismiss the ranking as pure hogwash. There are too many examples of such surveys not taking reality into account...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Looking Out for Number One | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

...fairly easy for me, a Northeastern liberal, to dismiss that conversation as an example of typical backwater Southern-thinking--until I was forced to confront racial injustice here in Boston...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: A Return to Racial Sensitivity | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

...ranks of those who would dismiss the virus threat as a Chicken Little scare are getting smaller with every outbreak. Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development and now chairman of ON Technology, became a believer when some of his associates were infected. "It isn't the fall of Western civilization," says Kapor, "but the problem is real and the threat is serious." Scientific American's Dewdney has had a similar change of heart. "At first I thought these new outbreaks were much ado about nothing," he says. "But I'm now convinced that they are a bigger threat than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...door is closed after 11, so I won't see any guests. That's my attitude," says one RA, who asked not to be identified. Because B.U. last spring adopted rules that allow it wide discretionary powers to dismiss RA's, some student assistants say they will avoid criticism for fear of being fired...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Silber's Parietals | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

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