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To be sure, the Community's Common Agricultural Policy is a costly absurdity, milking European consumers to keep marginal farmers on nonviable land and hurting efficient producers when the resulting surpluses are dumped on world markets. Yet despite the CAP, the Community is a net importer of foodstuffs, and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Of Business Trading Jabs | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

During his service in the Guard through much of the academic year 1969-70, Quayle decided he did indeed want to study the law. Admission would not be easy after his admittedly poor academic performance at DePauw, but here a personal contact was helpful. He knew the admissions director of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Earth Day 1990 is destined to follow the new tradition of Live Aid, Sport Aid and Band Aid: it will appeal to the abbreviated American attention span $ with a huge 24-hour dose of stunts, palaver and celebrity hoo-ha. But the environmental movement will be able to survive its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Greening From the Roots Up | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

While The Murderers Among Us had a clear thesis, coolly pursued, Wiesenthal's new memoir rambles through whole chapters on such marginal topics as whether Hitler had syphilis. And like some other memoirists in their 80s, Wiesenthal has lots of scores that he wants to settle. He is angry not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Settling Old Scores, Again | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

"If Cambridge water continues to be marginal Harvard should do its own testing," Dowling said.

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Harvard Tests Show Water Supply Safe | 3/7/1990 | See Source »

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