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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, if encouraged, proficiency in two languages can be an asset both academically and professionally. Academic achievement is vital to economic fate, and furthermore this country has a tradition of undervaluing knowlege of other languages...

Author: By Melissa W. Wright, | Title: Bilingual Redoux | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

...Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these people and prosecute them." Privately, U.S. officials could hardly restrain themselves. Said an intelligence analyst: "They just lied to us, from top to bottom. They did everything they could in order to mislead us about the location and fate of the terrorists." But thanks to effective intelligence in Egypt, the White House knew by Thursday morning that the hijackers still had not left the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The U.S. Sends a Message | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Only two weeks ago, it looked as if Frontier would have a quite different fate. Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo had offered to buy 60% of the outstanding stock of Frontier Holdings, the airline's parent company, for $20 a share, topping a $17-a-share bid made by four of Frontier's five unions. Frontier's employees, though, were anxious to avoid dealing with Lorenzo, whom they consider anti-union. In 1981, he bought Continental Airlines and two years later declared bankruptcy in order to get out of costly union contracts. In August, TWA's unions joined forces with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People on the Move | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...political systems. But we reject the notion that American physicians should not, therefore, work with their Soviet colleagues to educate the public on the medical consequences of nuclear war. We must accept these differences and pursue our mutual interest in survival for we are all linked by a common fate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contra Pipes | 10/18/1985 | See Source »

Financial woes left the fate of the Ha' Penny in the hands of bankrupcy court until Vincent P. Fraumeni bought the bar last spring and refurbished it in two and a half months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City May Lose Bar, Gain Hamburger Shop | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

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