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Carl W. Pilgrim, a Coop loss prevention agentand store detective, says the store's percentageloss has been steadily decreasing since it hit ahigh of seven percent in the mid-80s...
...which may leave his fans with a sense of deja vu: the twin flugelhorns, the wispy strings, the fuzzy horns, the retro female background singers. Only when Bacharach stretches his orchestrations into more rock-oriented territory does the music suggest outtakes from the schmaltzy Michael MacDonald recordings from the mid-80s. Few of the songs, though, sound so maudlin, and the melodies themselves stay thoroughly grounded in reality; these pop songs may be old-fashioned, but they sound far from melodramatic or artificial. Heartbreak itself, after all, is awfully old-fashioned, but it always feels fresh...
...bring this notion a little closer to home. One of the most influential and rigorous studies of sexual assault on college campuses was conducted in the mid-80s by Dr. Mary Koss, then a professor at Kent State. Koss found that one in 12 college men admitted to behaviors that fit the legal definition of rape. Applying the results of that study to Harvard, we can expect that just about all of us know someone affected by rape. The problem is that we rarely know we know...
...policy now mirrors most of the other universities in the Ivy League. Representatives from both Cornell and Columbia University said they have provided anonymous testing since the mid-80s...
Remember the Bulls of the mid-80s? Jordan seemed to break a record every night as his team rewarded his efforts with yet another loss. Little help...