Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pabst is gradually pushing the price of its Blue Ribbon brand back up again in an effort to restore its status as a premium beer. For now, though, the company's hopes for stronger sales rest chiefly with its own new entrant into the low-cal sweepstakes, Jacob Best Premium Light, and its popular West Coast superpremium brand, Henry Weinhard Private Reserve...
Your news story "New Federalism and Education: Federal Student Aid Cutbacks Force Massachusetts to Respond" that appeared over the-by-line of Jacob M. Schlesinger in your May I issue was recently called to my attention. In the story, Mr. Schlesinger refers to the press conference held at Suffolk University at which a study by the Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation, "Higher Education in Massachusetts: A Study of Enrollment and Financial Aid Requirements For Its Support" was released...
...weeks ago, a handful of survivors of the Titanic came together in a Philadelphia hotel to observe the 70th anniversary of the sinking. They fetched out their memories of that night and passed them around like photographs. They gazed at a few forlorn relics of the voyage: Mrs. John Jacob Astor's life jacket, a battered deck chair, other odds and ends from the unsinkable "Floating Palace" before it went down...
Just nine year later, Arevalo's involution, which had made real progress in relieving the poor from grinding poverty, came to its unnatural end. The CIA, with the full support of President Eisenhower, deposed Arevalo's successor Jacob Arbenz and installed a military government. Since that day, Roosevelt's freedom has disappeared, reforms have been obliterated, and thousands of Guatemalans have died at the hands of rightist death squads. Guatemala, which for a brief decade was a source of hope for moderate progressives the world over, is now a human-rights disaster area...
...Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, for example, says nothing about world peace in its catalogue. It is difficult to take such an ambition seriously: we have already seen the dreams of too many well-intentioned men end in frustration and bitterness--men like Jacob Schiff...