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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Wesley Foundation, at the time the largest religious student organization on campus, criticized the exclusion of names as incompatible with the Christian ideals that a church should represent. And the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBH), another organization that disapproved of the restricted dedication, took its protest one step further...

Author: By Allen M. Greenberg, | Title: Looking Back: | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

The President also reiterated a pledge, made by Secretary of State Alexander Haig at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Rome last month, that negotiations would start before the end of the year. Though Schmidt prefers that the talks begin in early autumn, he did not expect Reagan to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Schmidt Goes to Washington | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

On one side was President Reagan, eager to hold to his campaign pledge to cut personal income taxes across the board by 10% in each of the next three years, the so-called "10-10-10" proposal. On the other was House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Less Than Perfect 10-10-10 | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

For this reason, there were still hopes that the Habib mission might yet produce an understanding among all the parties. One possible avenue lay in a plan outlined to TIME by a high Begin aide last week. Under the proposal, the Christian Phalangists and Syrians would disengage their forces near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Bracing for the Worst | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

The spark for the late-week recovery came from Washington as the White House, increasingly alarmed about the disarray in financial markets, tried to restore confidence among moneymen. President Reagan abruptly abandoned his pledge to spare Social Security retirement payments from the budget ax; he proposed reductions in old-age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Bad News Bears | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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