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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motives. College officials, however, have several hypotheses. "It was a wonderful, big pumpkin, and a challenge. Swarthmore students are always up for a challenge," Dickerson said, adding, "he hasn't given me any real insight into whether he needed the pumpkin or if he wanted to make a pie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...American idea, pursued actively in the Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. If we had reduced Soviet ICBMs by 50%, we would have shut the so-called window of vulnerability. Giving up the chance to get very, very major reductions in the Soviet nuclear threat to pursue pie in the sky just doesn't make sense. They should have asked Gorbachev to clarify what restrictions he was asking for on SDI. Under the ABM treaty, for example, you can test exotic technologies from ground test sites. It doesn't seem to me that with that polyglot collection of advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Was the Deal? | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...doesn't take much political courage or gumption to come out against drugs. "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and cocaine" does not a campaign slogan make. Obviously, no one will get elected to office defending drug use. But some politicians apparently think they can get elected merely by railing against...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Urinvestigations | 10/21/1986 | See Source »

...more people participate in the same pie, the pieces will be slightly smaller," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Rebates Available; Checks Smaller This Year | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

However romanticized its view of a Harlem that never quite existed, Queenie Pie rings with authority. There are perhaps unconscious echoes of Porgy and Bess in characters and settings; almost the whole second act takes place on a kind of Kittiwah Island. But instead of Gershwin's "lampblack Negroisms," as Ellington aptly called them, Queenie Pie has the authentic sass and soul of black America. This is what really happened to Bess after she left Catfish Row. Following its three-week run in Philadelphia, Queenie Pie moves to Washington's Kennedy Center for a month. After that, there ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounding a Joyous Jubilee | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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