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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote by Central Committee members and alternates showed there is considerable opposition not only to Ligachev, but also to Politburo members closely linked to Gorbachev. Customarily such votes are unanimous, but the secret balloting used to chose deputies may have encouraged some to frankly express opposition to senior Kremlin figures...
...Texas Air. Two years ago, Eastern sold its computerized reservation system to Texas Air for $100 million -- a price most industry experts said was too low. Last October, Eastern agreed to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was either make the stand now, while there's still something left to fight for, or do it six months later, when...
...other faculty members express doubts about the administrative structures--not because they are weak--but because they add to the tangle of Harvard bureaucracy...
...album, Oranges and Lemons, released last week, is a departure from the smoothly orchestrated Skylarking. Instead of presenting gently coasting instrumentation, the group returns to the hard-hitting style of 1984's The Big Express and its earlier albums. Oranges and Lemons features a fair number of XTC's traditional energetic social statements, although it does show a suspicious tendency toward bouncy, top-40ish love songs and includes, not surprisingly, one or two utter failures...
...while these campus organizations, including the Black Students Association (BSA), the Koreans of Harvard-Radcliffe (KOHR) and Raza, sometimes offer programs that provide minority students with an opportunity to express their cultural identities, many of them seem to be losing their focus...