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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks at the three-day session. The No. 1 worry for the seven leaders is the rising potential for global recession along with a painful end to five years of sustained economic growth. To help prolong that expansion, the leaders must try to make stronger commitment to resist the lure of protectionism, which is beginning to cast a dangerous pall over world trade. Another summit priority will be taking further steps to ease the international debt crisis, which is simmering once again with the decision by Citicorp and other big U.S. banks to set aside billions of dollars for anticipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navigating With Care | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

Releasing the film under both its French and English titles is perhaps a ploy to lure American moviegoers who would like to speak French but don't. But it also preserves the metaphor in the title: "meduses" which means jellyfish in French is also the man-killing monster of Greek mythology...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: L'Annee de Meduses | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

Other schools lure minority students with four-year scholarships, but Harvard's need-based financial aid policy does not allow any special awards for minority students, she said...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Minorities Lured to Harvard | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...about the Marine spy scandal and the state of high-tech surveillance, knows intimately the wardrobe of both jobs. In 1955, fresh out of the University of Michigan with a & master's degree in Soviet studies, Van Voorst mulled over offers from the State Department and the CIA. The lure of the trench coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Apr. 20, 1987 | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...states vying for the collider, the project means more than just a giant subterranean circle with a few buildings topside. After creating jobs at the outset for 4,500 construction workers, the SSC will attract a work force of 2,500 scientists, engineers and technicians, and provide a lure for federal and private research dollars. Says Syracuse University Particle Physicist Marvin Goldberg: "It's hard to think of a classier project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Push for a Supercollider | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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