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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center is housed in a spacious office once used for accounts payable. In the corner, a tree from last Christmas still stands, a reminder of the unfortunate timing of Lackawanna's death knell. Employees are given a tour of the center in groups of ten or 20 before they are laid off. There is a bulletin board with 500 job listings, most of them technical, as well as 25 desks with telephones. In a corner are references like The National Job Finding Guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Mill Shut Down | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...PAGE 36 of her largely autobiographical novel Splendor and Misery Faye Levine '65 sounds its death knell...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Harvard as Hallucinogen | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

King's fate against the White political machine is of added interest to observers following Black congressman Harold Washington's Chicago Democratic primary victory last month in what was considered by many to be the death knell for Chicago's political machine...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Black Mayoral Candidate King Stresses Hub's Race Problem | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

...every politician-Black, white, rich, or poor-can fall under its charm. Every candidate is a reformer, but what he does as mayor is a different story. It is, as of now, too early to count out the political machine, no matter how many politicians sound its death knell...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: East Blowing Wind | 3/1/1983 | See Source »

...glorification of balanced budgets has reoccurred only recently, and, in fact, enjoys far from broad support. Try as he has, the President has failed to sound the death knell of Keynesian fiscal policy. If anything, the unemployment and recession that has partially resulted from his diminished social budget suggests just how efficacious federal outlays could be, deficit or not. A 27th amendment establishing balanced budgets would likely go the way of the ill-fated 18th amendment once America again saw the need for direct federal stimulus to the economy and succor for its needy...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Reagan's Balancing Act | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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