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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, you have to go back 16 years to find an Olympics that was not marred by some political gesture. And even if the Los Angeles Games had somehow gotten off the ground, the usual amateur professional controversy would have begun as soon as the Soviets or one of their allies triumphed in an event. You see, Americans would say they win easily because all their athletes are professionals and all American performers are amateurs and therefore compete with an inherent disadvantage. All victories by the Russians are understandable because the state recruits them when they're children and ruthlessly...
Reinhardt said GSAS wanted help determining student priorities for the rooms available and with some of the other administrative duties such as informing students they had not gotten housing. She added that it is difficult for GSAS to handle students from the other schools because her office didn't have their files...
Members of BLSA should have gotten their arguments together better before committing them to paper, because they can't have it both ways--a "private teach-in" that includes outside observers, but conduct the event in an exclusive, anti-free speech and anti-fairness manner. Indeed, the teach-in's moderator, Muhammad Kenyatta, implicity understood this gaping contradiction--albeit a bit late in the day--for he sought to circumvent it by ignoring the request of Prof. Alan Dershowitz and members of HJLSA for an explanation of how the moderator would handle a discussion period...
...gotten really good receptions at those places because of our affiliation with Harvard," said Weeks
Wall Street shares that wary view. "Many housing stocks have not looked good from a growth and investment standpoint," says Dean Witter Analyst Alan Wapnick. "They've really gotten hammered." For example, the share price of U.S. Home, the largest American homebuilder, is down more than 60% from its 52-week high of 20¾ last May. An important reason for the decline, says Wapnick, is the prospect of higher interest rates...