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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 has blamed Western banks such as Citicorp for greedily refusing to allow countries to restructure their debts. He even alleges that one of the causes of the U.S.'s staunch debt policy under Baker was the former Treasury Secretary's vested interest in Chemical Bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reality-Based Policy | 3/22/1989 | See Source »

...picture worth all the fuss? Sure, because he has tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lying with A Straight Face | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...great thing about Ivy League football," writes Jeffrey Hart, "was the vital and rich local culture surrounding it. That is why the Death Culture (liberalism) has hated it all along...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Death Culture Lives | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...subscribers. Viewership for the Sinatra- Minnelli-Davis concert is still being tabulated, but will probably fall well short of 100,000. Still, the concert's packager, Showtime Event Television, is pursuing other big stars for PPV events, and industry executives are bullish. "We're building an electronic arena," says Jeffrey Reiss, chairman of Request Television. "The day will come when Bruce Springsteen will be playing pay-per-view at the end of his tour. We're betting on the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Pay-Per-View Starts Perking | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...special meeting called by Mather House Master Jeffrey G. Williamson, residents filled the dining hall in what was described as a heated debate with students objecting both to the characterization of Mather as intolerant and the manner and timing of Defeat Homophobia's protest...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Mather Residents Debate Gay Issues | 3/4/1989 | See Source »

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