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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manshalaman said that her parents are now really jealous because she calls Cambridge home. She added that living away from home was an essential part of the college experience and said, "If your parents are forcing you to stay home--like my parents did, fight them...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: How to Be a Harvard Student | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...offered $2.7 billion for Associated. When the New York firm's directors did not respond, May made a hostile bid of $2.4 billion directly to shareholders. Wall Streeters doubt Associated can fight off a merger. But it may try to find a higher bidder. After all, no retailer wants to give away the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Marked Down to $2.4 Billion | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Lincoln, the story says, wanted to send his generals a case of Ulysses Grant's whisky if drinking it would make them fight like Grant. If Reagan is afflicted by senility, some of the world's leaders might try a case of it. Whether Reagan will ultimately be judged a great President remains to be seen, but he has shown himself to be one of the strongest leaders of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Yankee Doodle Magic | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...murderous repercussions in far less swank parts of New York City. The wrongdoers are exposed, but scarcely brought to book, by an honest cop who sees connections between the deaths of a multimillionaire and a small-time restaurateur and manages to wreck his marriage through obsession with an unwinnable fight against evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Warfare is about to become a part of the ever expanding service sector of the Pan-American economy. Instead of relying on our own industrial strength, made-in-America troops, President Reagan plans to hire cheaper, foreign models to fight the war he wants fought in Nicaragua. But there's sure to be some job openings for Americans in servicing these troops and perhaps, for the more adventurous, in waging...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Contra-dictory Solutions | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

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