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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, Harvards computer systems have been plauged by frequent overloading and breakdowns. The problem was brought home forcefully last year when computer breakdowns prompted long lines and waits of several hours for computer time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Apologize to Students For Delay in Computer Tests | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...later remarks, saying he had meant that a quarantine would be a legitimate response to the establishment of a Soviet or Cuban military base in Nicaragua, and then only as an "option" to be used in consultation with U.S. allies in the region. But the hedges, and his frequent reliance on aides for clarification, only served to undercut his charge that Reagan is "essentially absent" from the formation of U.S. foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Even with its frequent sight gags and sometimes offensive humor, Bad Manners offers a glimpse into an American childhood world the "Brady Bunch" et al wouldn't even allow in their outtakes. Still, the humor that might make Bad Manners more than just a fun night out with yourself disappoints in the end. Filmed in under backing, it sports an uneven quality peculiar to low-budget Hollywood. If Bobby Houston follows through with plans to offer a second with a larger budget, Bad Manners II could retain its humor and develop into the better movie it often hints...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: One From the Gross-Out School | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

Administration critics of the Sandinista regime have long concentrated on its repressive side Hardliners in Washington have pointed to the absence of election and the frequent silencing of dissidents in the press and the church...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Harvard and Nicaragua | 9/26/1984 | See Source »

...McPhee begins the book by noting that, "The Swiss have not fought a war for nearly five hundred years and are determined to know how so as not to." For the next 150 pages McPhee shows us just how they go about this. Most important are the frequent maneuvers that the Swiss army holds in the mountainous countryside. McPhee tagged along for three weeks of the last year's fall war games and La Place de in Concorde Suisse is what he came up with...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Just Like Clockwork | 9/18/1984 | See Source »

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