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...attitude of one Currier House commuter seems to support this. While she recognizes certain dangers in haphazard riding, she says, "When you're late to class, you pick the shortest way to get there and that...

Author: By Miliann Kang and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Strikes Against Bikes | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...adobe houses still standing defiantly erect alongside the skeletons of completely scorched buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust now covers everything. A stray dog searches for its owner and snaps at anyone who tries to peer through what was once a window. The destruction seems haphazard. A completely undamaged kitchen with a green refrigerator opens into the hulk of a demolished bedroom. Fragments of lives are scattered everywhere, here a flowered water jug, there a statue of the Virgin Mary, her severed head resting a few steps away from her folded, praying hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Fire in the Dawn Sky | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Republicans "appeared to have calibrated their strategy very carefully in terms of the polls and acted accordingly. I wonder [and will ask] whether they polled as often as they appeared to have or whether it was more haphazard," Isaacs commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School | 11/28/1984 | See Source »

...income and assets if they stand to benefit from them, as well as their personal assets. Ferraro, who is a lawyer, had never disclosed Zaccaro's; she says she believed their separate careers entitled her to an exemption. Finally, Ferraro would have to answer for her husband's sometimes haphazard and occasionally controversial business dealings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show and Tell | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

When Telling became chairman in 1978, Sears was more like a far-flung feudal kingdom than a smooth-running company. Store managers ordered goods in a haphazard way and sometimes ignored merchandising strategies planned at headquarters. Telling cut costs and raised sales by imposing discipline and direction from the Sears Tower in Chicago. To add spark to the company, he eased out complacent old-line executives and appointed younger, fresher lieutenants to key positions. Says Telling: "It was very lonely. What I did had to be done, but I knew I wouldn't be very popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. T. Rules the Tower | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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