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Hiestand moved with his wife, who worked for American Airlines, to Fort Worth, Tex. and finally retired in the mid-1980s. Both moved to Cooper City two years...
...used to be on the committee for athletics,"says Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel. "Whenwe found out [in the mid-1980s] that 90 percent ofvarsity athletes in three sports were in KirklandHouse, we didn't think that was the best way tohave the Harvard experience...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole--once a defender and now critic of affirmative action--continued to be tripped up by the apparent contradictions of his record. In the mid-1980s, Dole tried to help a black former aide benefit from a small-business affirmative-action program that he now wants to scrap. Dole's office explained that the Senator tries to make sure "constituents are treated fairly while working to change the system...
...controversy over his financial ethics. In 1989 he was fined $30,000 by the Federal Election Commission for accepting illegal corporate donations during his 1984 Senate campaign. Gramm was also investigated, and later absolved, by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over a land deal in the mid-1980s in which the owner of a soon-to-fail Texas S&L undercharged him for work on Gramm's vacation house in Maryland...
...through mail-order catalogs, which rang up $57 billion in sales last year. Craig Gugel, senior vice president for interactive media for Ted Bates in New York City, compares the present state of online advertising with the early days of cable TV, just before its rapid growth during the mid-1980s. Says Gugel: ``Interactive media is going to explode over the next five to 10 years. Online advertising is out there now, but interactive television is coming next...