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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doris Collier, 61, lives on the Medford hillside. She's been married for 42 years to a man who works for the state housing authority. She has six grandchildren. Both her parents are alive--her father is in a New Hampshire nursing home...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Harvard Union Members Say | 11/24/1992 | See Source »

...will be easy to feed all those grandchildren (even the "little brown ones," as he has been known to call them) in the Yale dining halls. He can constantly be the big-spending Gampy and buy ice cream every afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Always, Yale Sucks | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

Forget trickle-down economics. The biggest disaster of 12 years of Republican rule was that there were no kids in the White House--"Gampy" had a million grandchildren running around, but after he called some of them "the little brown ones," he lost his family status...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Risky Business | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

Deutsch is survived by his wife, Ruth, daughters Mary Edsall and Margaret Carroll, and three grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karl Deutsch Dies | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

...worst occurs, countless millions will become environmental refugees, swamping the nations that tried to conserve their soil, water and forests. The great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes. The world in which they survived would consist largely of deserts, patches of tropical forests, eroded mountains, dead coral reefs and barren oceans, all buffeted by extremes of weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Many People | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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