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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gives students actual experience in applying class material. Last year, each student in the course had to do a project on a restaurant or clothing store in Harvard Square. Each compiled an overall assessment of the business practices of the examined organization and then presented it to the store owner at the end of the course...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Pondering the Meaning of It All | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...frantic search also detected CEM in three other stallions at Gainesway and 21 mares on various other farms. The state banned any movement of horses from one Kentucky farm to another and stopped all shipments of horses out of state. Gainesway Farm's John Gaines and Spendthrift Owner Brownell Combs II shut down breeding operations altogether. Since he has 33 stallions, valued at $57 million, Combs was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. The farm's stud fees for a single breeding range as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blighted Spring in the Bluegrass | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

THIRTY SUMMERS AGO, the owner of a Jewish resort in the Catskills hired a skinny, crazy kid named Mel to amuse the middle-aged couples lounging around the swimming pool. That proprietor could hardly have known it, but in hiring that kid he unleashed a comic force of staggering proportions upon the Borscht Belt and eventually, the rest of the world. Mel Brooks was plainly crazy. He would do anything to get a laugh, and while his written gags frequently bore the stamp of genius, he often resorted to simply slapstick or "dirty" words. Either way, audiences loved...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...reacted to the dilemma in widely contrasting ways. In New York, Citicorp, holding company for the U.S.'s second largest bank. Citibank, let out the word that it had stopped all lending to the South African government and government-owned companies. In New Haven. Conn., Olin Corp., the owner of the Winchester Group, which is one of the largest U.S. firearms makers, was indicted on a charge of conspiring to ship weapons to South Africa illegally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rebuffs for South Africa | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...scissors could emulate Dover's vast output and multimillion-dollar volume. The prospect is pleasant: bygone writers do not require royalties, and artists from other epochs are in greater demand now than they were in their own lifetimes. "All it takes to maintain Dover," says its president and owner, "is judgment, hard work and luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The White Clips of Dover | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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