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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the private gifts generated by these local wish lists may ease budget aches, they do not solve the financial crunch. It is difficult to find donations to fill potholes or fix bridges. Admits Athens City Manager Marvin Bolinger: "We aren't going to have a street or a new sewer plant donated. The basic needs still need to be met. But this is just helping with the little extras that you'd like to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make a Wish | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Plutnicki didn't do all the scoring, but when Yale shut him out for the final 10 minutes, nobody could fill the hole in the Crimson offense...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Cagers Bow to Quicker Yale | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...very clear first choice for the position," said Warner B. Berthoff, professor of English and American Literature, who suggested that the offer was in part designed to fill a spot vacated by retiring Thomas Professor of English and American Literature, Daniel Aaron...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Columbia Puritan Expert Accepts Harvard Tenure | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

...think the highest priority by far is the emergency preparedness area. And the highest single priority there would be to fill up a Strategic Petroleum Reserve. We have an opportunity to take advantage of lower prices. If the world oil market is going to be tight by the end of the decade, as I predict it will, it takes a maximum effort just to achieve a 750-million barrel target. If the reserve is not filled, it will not be available even in the 1990s. And I think if one looks at where all the military expenditures are going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governing Energy | 2/5/1983 | See Source »

Taylor said he is "totally confident" that preregistration will fill all the sections...

Author: By Janet A. Titus, | Title: Bio Department May Curtail Tutorials | 2/4/1983 | See Source »

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