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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allow the universities' point that a bidding war would ensue if they did not set awards. If competition forced the big schools to work to entice students, smaller schools would go all out to get their students. Implicit in the colleges' argument is the assumption that education at all these schools is of equal value and hence should not be sold to the "highest bidder. Yet, in a competitive system, the same number of students would accept admission, and the rule of "need-based" aid should insure that the most money would go to the most needy students...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: An Illiberal Practice | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

Faigen attributed the 88-point rally to various factors, which "worked together to calm fears and reassure investors that things would not get out of control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Debate Market Plunge and Recovery | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...lower Manhattan, tourists lined up early outside the New York Stock Exchange, hoping to get an eyewitness view of the trading spasms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feared Market Crash Turns Into Big Rally | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

...eager to denounce the alternative fuels than to develop new products. Mobil has run ads attacking methanol as polluting, expensive and more dangerous than gasoline if accidentally swallowed. Although the fuel produces far fewer smog ingredients than gasoline, it releases more formaldehyde, a suspected cause of cancer. Cars would get less mileage from methanol because it burns faster than gasoline. Yet Indianapolis 500 racers have used methanol for years because it boosts horsepower and is less flammable in accidents; U.S. automakers have developed experimental cars that run on both methanol and gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yearning To Breathe Free | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...vast prairies of Saskatchewan, where wheat and canola fields stretch from horizon to horizon. Then it is on to the Rockies, along ledges that would make an aerialist faint. It presses near the old Calamity Curve, through the Jaws of Death Gorge and, lest passengers have failed to get the message, into the Devil's Caldron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You Can't Get There from Here | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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