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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Housing Office yesterday began accepting names for its spring waiting list, and over 400 Harvard employees and graduate school students, about 14 percent of the total expected applicants, braved the elements yesterday morning to secure a better chance of receiving precious local housing...
...catch up with work at home, and many families enjoy playing computer games. But the range of other uses for computers in the home is still limited. Most consumers seem to think that a pencil remains the tool of choice for balancing the checkbook and updating the grocery list. Home-computer sales, which surged from 390,000 machines in 1981 to 4.8 million in 1983, declined by 6%, to 4.5 million, last year. Says John Pope of IBM's personal-computer unit: "Our expectations were overly optimistic. The home market did not expand to the degree that IBM, and others...
Many subjects, in life and in art, do not automatically arouse emotions of terror or pity. High on any such list must be the spectacle of people complaining about how impossible it is to get good help nowadays. Yet that is the fundamental problem faced by the heroine of Mary Gordon's third novel. Anne Foster, 38, has just about everything, including a Harvard Ph.D. in art history and what one of her many adoring friends calls "the only decent marriage in America." Her bright and handsome husband Michael, a professor at a Massachusetts college, is due to spend...
Zuckerman, who has reinvigorated the Atlantic Monthly since buying it in 1980, interviewed several candidates for the U.S. News job over the past few months. But he insists that Coffey was always the first name on his list. While the search went on, Zuckerman brought in Harold Evans, 56, the former editor of the London Sunday Times, as "editorial director." Evans will return full time to his post as head of Atlantic Monthly Press but will continue to advise Zuckerman on U.S. News...
Ronald Reagan is the master of the new idea, and has built the most successful political career in a half-century launching one after another. His list of credits includes small government (Barry Goldwater having tried, and failed, with it first), supply-side economics and strategic defense (Star Wars). These radically changed the terms of debate on the welfare state, economic theory and nuclear strategy. All that was left for him to turn on its head was accepted thinking on geopolitics. Now he has done that too. He has produced the Reagan Doctrine...