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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legacy remains. Time praised the women of the Bush family for popularizing dresses that cost "only" $800--a mere pittance compared to the $22,000 displays of conspicuous consumption that adorned Nancy Reagan. In the age of shameless accumulation, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that $800 is a hell of a lot of money to most people. For the more than 7 million Americans who work for the minimum wage, it's considerably more than a month's gross earnings...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Post-Reagan Blues | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

THESE objections might be overlooked if the University really needed the hotel space in Harvard Square. But Harvard owns another site in the Square that is perfect for a hotel--so perfect, in fact, that there is already a hotel there. The University has leased the Harvard Motor House to a developer, who plans to replace it with a seven-story office building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reassess Priorities | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...shopping period, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts Seymour Slive informed the sophomores in attendance at Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt," that they were no longer welcome in the course. Many sophomores, however, had attended the three previous lectures without any expectation they would be axed. In fact, several had already turned in their study cards that morning before class...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Rotten to the Core | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

Although Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone limited the enrollment in "Jazz" to 400, he gave preference to juniors and seniors, which is the only sensible way to run a lottery. But the fact that students swarmed to a slightly modified version of an introductory level departmental course reflects badly on the Core as a whole. It indicates that Core courses are not as different "by design" as Core officials had hoped they would...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Rotten to the Core | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...fact that there are all sorts of people inevery college really made a difference for me,"said Debbie L. Kartiganer, who added that shechose Yale in part because of its housing system...

Author: By Michael S. Berk, | Title: Yale's Random Housing Offers Student Diversity | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

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