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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Education is vital in a modern economy. Industries relying on cheap, unskilled labor are rapidly leaving this country for Asia and South America. The United States' economic future lies in the high technology and information industries which demand a skilled and literate population. Education, or human capital, will increasingly become the key to our nation's economic competitiveness...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: A Slow Slide into Mediocrity? | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Japanese officials say participation by 163 nations make this the largest state funeral or gathering of international leaders in modern history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Japan, World Bid Farewell to Hirohito | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

...modern three-story structure is to be joined to the Fogg on Prescott Street, with its main entrance through the second floor of the Fogg. Not only will the location compress the space between exhibits, but it is hoped that it will make what is now a series of tar paths and dumpsters visually pleasing. The new complex will also be integrated with its famous neighbor, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which was designed by French architect Le Corbusier. The ramp from the Carpenter Center which now opens into the unused rear of the Fogg will lead...

Author: By Yuko Miyazaki, | Title: The New Busch-Reisinger Plans | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

...modern Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 13 persons were shot dead or wounded in Washington...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Valentine's Day in the Inner City | 2/23/1989 | See Source »

Raoul Wallenberg was not the only one who saved Jews and other refugees by issuing them escape visas, a modern historian told 50 people at the Cambridge Organization of Portuguese Americans...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: City Remembers Portuguese Wallenberg | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

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