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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Raza and the Puerto Rican student group La O are working with University administrators for the appointment of visiting professors in ethnic studies, leaders...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Campus Minority Activism Marked By New Consensus and Organization | 2/1/1989 | See Source »

Airlines routinely lose baggage, and one airplane in flight last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Two Engines Are Better | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...pimp." He worked on a Chrysler assembly line for eleven years; when he sings, his voice is all rough edges, Wilson Pickett-style, that soar and spar. Sir Harry Bowens may still be unknown to Burke's Peerage (relax, guys: his knighthood is self- imposed), but fans of the O'Jays will recognize the cool, platinum elegance of his phrasing. He sang with the O'Jays for seven years, but no musical grounding adequately prepared him for his first meeting with the Was boys. "I thought," Sir Harry recalls, "that they were a couple of crackpots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate-Covered Razor Blades And other treats from a fun funk band | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

What particularly alarms the Wall Streeters is the likelihood that the Fed will unleash the banks even more. Says Edward O'Brien, president of the Securities Industry Association: "It represents piecemeal dismantling of the appropriate separation that exists in the financial-services industry -- a system that has worked exceedingly well for more than 50 years." Within a year, the Fed plans to consider whether to allow banks to venture deeper into Wall Street's business by selling stocks as well as bonds. The securities industry may try to block the Fed in court, although previous challenges have failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Toe over The Line:Banks get the go-ahead to enter Wall Street turf | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Elis, even with All-ECAC goaltender Mike O'Neill, struggled...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Yale Icemen Paint Dreams in Realistic Colors | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

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