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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white shirts. "There is nothing more crisp and effective with a dressy suit than a white shirt," says Phil Borntrager, a buyer at upscale Chicago clothier Mark Shale's. Others see white's return as emblematic of a conservative trend in power dressing. "People are looking for a lower profile, and that includes the way they dress," explains Jody Kuss of the haberdashery Barneys New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's Hip, It's Safe, It's Back | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...surface, the Reagan 1989 budget is an impressive effort. It sets a deficit target of $129.5 billion, less than the $146.7 billion gap expected for 1988 and far lower than the $176 billion shortfall projected for 1989 if Congress and the White House do not follow through on the agreement to raise revenues and cut spending. The amount of deficit reduction Reagan plans for 1989 is probably just right. Anything more might throw the economy into a recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Cutting the Deficit: A Legacy Of Largesse | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...lower blood pressure and a better mood are not incentive enough for starting to exercise regularly, consider this: scientists now believe that lifelong physical exertion also protects against cancer and diabetes. In Boston last week researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that athletic women cut their risk of breast and uterine cancer in half and of the most common form of diabetes by two-thirds. Says Harvard Reproductive Biologist Rose Frisch, who led the 5,398-woman study: "The long-term effects of early exercise on health are impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Sweat Cure Exercise may prevent cancer | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...accessibility of senior faculty and the quality of student advising are other significant concerns of the accreditation report. The reviewers perceive "a level of interaction between senior faculty and students that seems lower than might be expected in a situation of such academic plenty...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: An Outside View of a Harvard Education | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

...university. Universities are eliti institutions, at least insofar as they operate on the meritocratic principle. What needs to be guarded against in the great universities is a more insidiousism, aristocratism. Like it or not, universities are at some level credential factories. They serve as a springboard for middle and lower-class individuals not only to live with and befriend those of the privileged classes--which is at least as important for the sake of the latter--but also to join them, eventually, in running this country...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: I.F. Stone Questions Socrates | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

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