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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provide the book with an unsavory male presence and the kids with an unsuitable role model. Aside from Quayle, the story contains only meetings with abridgeable--and abridged--men, in contrast to the subtlety with which some of the women are sketched. (While this does not constitute a major flaw within the novel, the reader still wonders whether some of one's best friends could...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maiiala, | Title: Savagery Pays Off | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee. Wirth contends that Fowler has been far more vigorous in unshackling the brobdingnagians of broadcast row than in stimulating the entry of new entrepreneurs. Fowler's argument that content regulations constitute censorship and violate the First Amendment has one glaring flaw, says Wirth: the Supreme Court has consistently found them constitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Evangelist of the Marketplace | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...could be 38 degrees out, and some parts of the building will need cooling," says Zewinski, explaining that this is part of a fundamental design flaw in the building "that should have been corrected long...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Holyoke Center Crumbles | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...obvious flaw in this production is that while the world and its problems have changed over the past 20 years, the songs are preserved unchanged. The witty lyrics still draw laughter from the audience, but the barbs of social criticism have grown blunt with time. As Terrence Currier '57, one of the actors in the Boston production, puts it, "Tom considers political satire dead ever since Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Mellowed With Age | 10/27/1983 | See Source »

...Teaching is not a profession in America," he said. "The fact is that all of these programs [to improve productivity] have a single thread--the need for good teachers, and a single flaw--the lack of them...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Hollings, at Harvard, Urges Troop Removal From Lebanon | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

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