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...wanted to use our talents not only to entertain people but to help people as well," he said...

Author: By Arnold E. Franklin, | Title: Two Student Groups Earn Money for AIDS | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...hope these little anecdotes have caused a smile to cross your face, and if you are eating, please don't laugh. However, the reason I state these facts is not to entertain you, but to hopefully teach my peers some manners...

Author: By Lamonte G. Lucas, | Title: Manners, Anyone? | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

Most likely to leave you hanging in suspense. Tonight's the final installment of a 34-episode Masterpiece Theater series, and the boss wants you to entertain clients. But no problem! That's why you -- and millions of other Americans -- bought the videocassette recorder with the one-month, eight- program calendar timer and standby one-touch record. Once you have mastered the owner's manual, a lifetime task for some, you just shove in a tape and press a few dozen buttons. What could go wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...shifted their depositors' money (now insured for $100,000 instead of $40,000) from unexciting residential mortgages to potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even as it was heading into receivership. Named head of the Office of Thrift Supervision in August, Wall now directs the agency established to solve the problems Garn-St. Germain helped create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legal Bank Robbery | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...holiday may be over, but it's not to late to catch one of Harvard's spookiest Halloween treats. First-class acting, skillful direction and a healthy dose of paranoia make Ten Little Indians a sure bet both to frighten and entertain. And after seeing this production, you might even be a little more careful when you recite those childhood nursery rhymes...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

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