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...long as the war continues to loom in the back of people's minds like "static in the background," the usual student concerns about schoolwork and jobs will just become more complicated, says Suzanne Repetto, the associate director of the Bureau and a counselor there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counseling Groups Respond to Students' War Angst | 2/2/1991 | See Source »

...INXS has played 2,000 performances during the past 13 years. And what have its members got to show for it? Folks still have trouble with the name. "In excess" would be phonetically correct, but it lacks the cool mystery of those four uppercase letters, which make the lads loom large, like something mythic: six electrified Druids with some new rhythmic spells to weave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Success Of Excess | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...resource depletion are neither simple nor easy. Their solutions will be complex and difficult. And painful. Small actions such as avoiding paper cups should be encouraged, but they must be seen for what they are--only the first and the easiest in a series of hard, unavoidable actions that loom before...

Author: By Mona Lin, | Title: Environmentalism Isn't Easy | 11/15/1990 | See Source »

...much more important, Flaherty has proven time and time again as House majority leader that he is an effective legislator, arguably the only person on Beacon Hill with the strength and power to lead the House through the bitter budget battles that loom ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Picks in Other Local Contests | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...welfare lines loom over my horizon as I realize the brutal truth: I am a humanities major, and I am, a dime a dozen...

Author: By Daniel E. Mufson, | Title: Penury and June: Preparing for the Post-College Wasteland | 10/25/1990 | See Source »

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