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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolf said solar energy might provide an alternative for nuclear power. "I'm not an energy expert, but I do know that most of the utilities' money has been put into nuclear plants. The only way to address them is to close the plants," she said...

Author: By Mark K. Wiedman, | Title: In Party-Line Vote, Council Opposes Anti-Nuclear Referendum Question | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...REMEMBER, however weak your own background, the students know even less...If a student is clearly not satisfied and wants more depth, refer him/her to either another graduate student or to a good biographical reference. `That sounds like a good paper topic' is a good answer to questions raised on more specific/detailed points that you don't or can't get into and one you can use repeatedly to humorous effect...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Teaching Mediocrity? | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...years later, just after the victory over Germany. By then Churchill was beginning to talk about the Soviet threat, which seemed to him as menacing as that of Germany ten years before. "An iron curtain is drawn down upon ((the Soviet)) front," he wrote President Truman. "We do not know what is going on behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lightning In His Brain | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...logic applies to almost any other industry, as corporate executives well know. Business people are funneling contributions to Republicans and Democrats alike, in fact to anyone with a reasonable chance of winning or holding a national office. By using loopholes in the election reform laws of 1974, which limit political contributions to candidates, corporate donors have helped make the 1988 national campaign the most free-spending in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Many politicians have come to expect business contributions as their due. Thomas Mann, director of governmental studies at Washington's Brookings Institution, describes PAC contributions and soft-money donations as a "mild form of extortion." Businesses, he argues, are only responding to pressure from politicians. "Congressmen let them know that if they don't play the game -- and it takes money to play -- then someone else will," Mann says. More and more, executives who refuse to become involved in politics via the money route could find it harder to do business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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