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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard students longing to leap into the gap should be advised that Christy's pays a base rate of $4.25 an hour, while Store 24 pays $5.00 an hour...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Flooding the Late-Night Munchie Market | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...edited the Ladies' Home Journal, Derek Bok was trained as an attorney and came to the Harvard law faculty in 1958, then became dean of the law school in 1968. He still cherishes a lawyerly faith in due process and in reasoned consensus. "Someone with more intellectual flair might leap past process, but it means too much to Bok," says an aide. "He's almost obsessed by a need for fairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Setting All the Parts in Harmony | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Someone with more intellectual flair might leap past process, but it means too much to Bok," the magazine quoted an unnamed "aide" as saying. "He's almost obsessed by a need for fairness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clear Indifference | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...behind the next step to an easier, happier life for the yuppie jet-setter, lay a deeper discovery--that the media tends to leap without looking. What the news failed to discuss amidst all their accolades were the conditions in which this amazing cure was found. One elderly woman whose biological clock differs from those of most people...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Mixing Research With Reporting | 8/5/1986 | See Source »

Unfortunately, programming such a machine calls for some conceptual gymnastics that even computer scientists find difficult to perform. According + to a DARPA report, only one in three De fense Department programmers can make the leap. Says Larry Smarr, director of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois: "We have 40 years' experience designing software for single-processor machines. But the software for these new machines is complicated and excruciatingly hard to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Letting 1,000 Flowers Bloom | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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