Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles T. Clotfelter, co-author of the Urban Institute's study and an associate professor of public-policy studies and economics at Duke University, counters Reardon's logic with the assertion that his model takes disposable income into account. "It does moderate the decrease, but the [cost] effect overwhelms that," he says flatly, explaining that the study relied on a decade's worth of data that consistently show contributors are far more sensitive to changes in tax structure than to fluctuations in their disposable income...
...Duke University decides to okay a library for Nixon's papers...
...19th century English historian Sir John Seeley once noted that "history is past politics, and politics present history." For a while last week in Durham, N.C., Richard Nixon's past politics threatened to deprive Duke's historians of a disquieting repository from the past...
...Nixon, a determined and solitary young man nicknamed Gloomy Gus by his classmates, graduated third in his class from Duke Law School. He was never Duke's most popular alumnus on campus; in 1954, when he was Vice President of the U.S., the faculty voted against awarding him an honorary degree. Since 1974, the year he resigned as President, the school has kept his official portrait in a vault. But this summer Duke President Terry Sanford, a former Democratic Governor of North Carolina, began trying to acquire Nixon's presidential papers...
...million to a modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually one tires...