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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punting situation was a different matter. Alan Hall handled the punting duties and was fair at best, averaging a semi-respectable 32.6 yards per kick, but getting off a number of 20-yard stinkers in the process...
Harvard Food Service officials have established a new "Dial-A-Menu" service, prompted by dozens of calls per day about the menu in the undergraduate dining halls. Beginning this fall, undergraduates can find out the daily menu in the dining halls by calling...
American real estate agents love the trend: by some estimates, the Japanese have single-handedly boosted the selling prices of prime Manhattan real estate 10% to 15%, to roughly $500 per sq. ft. Those prices are still a bargain compared with costs in Tokyo, where office towers sell for an astronomical $20,000 or more per sq. ft. -- on those rare occasions when anything comes up for sale. Says Shigeru Kobayashi, owner of Japan's multibillion-dollar Shuwa real estate empire: "Bond buyers are holding paper, but I have buildings and land. That's the future." Kobayashi's son Takashi...
Madelon Fuller's childhood memories of Waxahachie, Texas (pop. 18,560), include chasing fireflies, catching crawdads and eating plenty of fried okra, gravy-soaked chicken-fried steak and eggs. Not surprisingly, Fuller's cholesterol level went into orbit -- 324 mg per 100 ml of blood, in contrast to an optimal level of 200 mg -- and by age 44 she had had triple-bypass surgery. She went on a restrictive diet, and her cholesterol level plunged. But her arteries were still choking. Early this year her doctor suggested adding an experimental drug called lovastatin to her regimen. Within four months...
...midnight coup was not the first event to disturb Aquino's sleep last week. Two days earlier the President provoked a general strike by leftist and conservative trade unions, angry over a recently announced hike in gasoline prices, from $1.24 to $1.49 per gal. In a country where the average annual income is barely $600 a year, the increase was stunning. Though Aquino finally declared a partial rollback of the hike, thousands of Filipinos walked off their jobs and out of their classrooms in the largest show of protest since Aquino assumed the presidency. After the strike went into...