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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent column, "Divesting of Divestment," Nordhaus chides Harvard's activists for failing to keep up the fight even though Harvard has not fully divested and apartheid is still in force...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Diversifying After Divestment | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...lawmakers said it would be an uphill fight to win approval next month of the spending cuts and tax changes envisioned in the agreement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Announces Budget-Cutting Plan | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

...Then fight, fight, fight for we win tonight...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Plays I Will Not Forget | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

Frances Fox Piven, a City College of New York professor, urged an Emerson Hall audience of about 50 to fight the current welfare system, which she said intimidates and demoralizes recipients...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Workfare Is Unfair, Says CUNY Expert | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

Gale arrived in Rio on Oct. 17. By then some of the patients' radiation- ravaged bone marrow could not produce sufficient immune cells to fight off ever present bacteria. Doctors battled soaring fevers, infection and internal bleeding with sophisticated antibiotics and clotting agents. At Chernobyl, Gale and Selidovkin had tried to save severely affected technicians and fire fighters with bone-marrow transplants. The medical team in Rio decided against that surgical tactic, in part because the patients' bone marrow had not been irreversibly destroyed and because, from the nature of their exposure, some of the sickest patients had become radioactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Battle Against Deadly Dust | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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