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In recent years the nation has been conducting what amounts to an ad hoc experiment in discouraging welfare applicants. Under Reagan Administration prodding, states have tightened eligibility rules. Partly as a result, the number of AFDC families peaked at 3.9 million in 1981 and has declined slightly since. Benefit increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing Welfare | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Had Conner been born in Indianapolis, possibly he would have raced the brightest automobiles. People say he has a genius for sailing, but it may be that he has just applied his genius to sailing and is literally driving himself. "At a certain level, does it make much difference?" Conner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For the America's Cup | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

. Scott Hoy: this sophomore is the team's best returning breaststroker, who last year really peaked at Easterns.

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Shooting for the Elusive Number Nine | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

The 1985 Harvard football team, it will be said in future years, peaked too early. An upset of Penn on the penultimate weekend of the season catapulted the Crimson into a tie for the Ivy League crown, but represented the squad's season high.

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing the Multiflex Blues | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

The 1986 Harvard football team peaked too early as well.

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing the Multiflex Blues | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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