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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rulings represent a major defeat for the Reagan administration, which sought to limit on-the-job racial preferences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Court Supports Affirmative Action | 7/3/1986 | See Source »

...Shin Bet (the Hebrew acronym for Israel's General Security Service), which handles antiterrorism intelligence operations. "There will be no whitewash of the affair," Harish told reporters. Still, few doubted that the Attorney General would come under heavy pressure from the Cabinet of Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres to limit the scope of any probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Whitewash | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

...these sound just too academic for summer reading, try the Science Fantasy Bookstore (8 JFK St. St.) on top of the Wursthaus, for your favorite new, used and out-of-print science fiction paperbacks and hardcovers. And if any book at all will tax your brain past its limit, the Million Year Picnic (99 Mt. Auburn St.) and Newbury Comics (30 JFK St.) may be the perfect remedy...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Browsing for Books | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

Reagan did leave a crack in the door for reconsideration, saying that between now and the time the U.S. exceeds the limit, the U.S.S.R. could "take the constructive steps necessary to alter the current situation." But that hardly encouraged advocates of compliance. One official involved in arms control policy described Reagan as "fed up" with the arguments over adherence to the treaty. "The debate is over," said he. "He's made his decision and that's it. SALT II is finito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salt Ii Is Finito | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...page upper limit was imposed, in theGovernment Department, at least, after anambitious senior named Henry Kissinger '50 woreout the spectacles of his readers by handing in a350-page magnum opus...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Wacky Side Of Senior Theses | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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