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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bankruptcies. In 1984, 26.1 million people flew on them, and one industry watcher believes that by the end of 1986 the number will grow to 45.8 million. Still, 29 of the 208 commuter lines went out of business between 1978 and 1984. An additional 50 are expected to fail before the end of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buddy System in the Sky | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...FOUR New York groups involved with the Attorney General's office are not optimistic. They have said that anything less than $900,000 would violate Stillman's original intentions and fail to guarantee that the forest will be adequately maintained. The Golden sale does not guarantee a steady flow of funds, but relies on local educational institutions to pay to use the forest...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Selling a Piece of the Rock | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

Just in case we fail to notice the obvious--the different types of vanity--there is an author's note giving three definitions of vanity and telling us that the play means all of these things...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: The Old College Try? | 11/7/1985 | See Source »

...suffer a heavier punishment. Such an act of friendship is rare and should be applauded, and that the Ad Board appears to have given it no consideration in its decision is very disheartening to me. Hard as I try, I cannot understand the Board's decision, and absoulutely fail to see the justice in Jennifer's punishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Ad Board | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

Howard Green, the Higgins Professor of Physiology, will receive $97,000 this year and should get $420,000 in 1992. His area of research involves studying why cells grow or fail to grow...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Four Harvard Docs Get $3M for Research | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

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