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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's denial came despite what onefaculty member called a History Departmentrecommendation that was "minorly in [Brinkley's]favor...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Brinkley Tenure Bid Ends Unsuccessfully | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...said she is confident Judge Haskell C. Freedman will rule in their favor. He is expected to announce his decision at least a month from...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Students Sue BU In Free Speech Case | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

Seniors hoping to take Professor Owen Gingerich's popular Science A-17 course, "Astronomical Perspectives," may find themselves lotteried out this week in favor of younger students...

Author: By James S. Rubin, | Title: Star-Struck Seniors May Be Left in Dark In Science A-17 Lottery | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

...fiscal imagination, juggling budget figures to stay below the $144 billion debt limit set for next year by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act, there was little talk of restraint on the subject of curbing drug abuse. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week said he would favor new taxes to pay for the plan. "I'm afraid this bill % is the legislative equivalent of crack," said Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, one of the handful of Congressmen who voted against the package. "It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Big Guns | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Such people -- and these are the people going around spraying airliners and synagogues with bullets -- will not retire even if Israel makes the most extreme concession and gives up the West Bank in favor of a Palestinian state. What Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas and indeed every Palestinian guerrilla group demand as a right is not a Hebron vineyard but downtown Tel Aviv. Even a radical West Bank solution will leave all of today's major terror groups and their sponsoring states aggrieved and in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Terror and Peace: the Root Cause Fallacy | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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