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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first collection] was published of course the wily and parsimonious Victor S. Navasky has complained to me that it portrays him as the sort of person who pays columnists only sixty-five dollars a shot when in fact he is going a full one hundred or what I prefer to think of as a century Ironically it was Navasky who insisted that I promise never to reveal that he finally agreed to come across with a C-note for each column it might give the other fellows ideas he said I promised...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Laughter on the Left | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...friendly game of frisbee in the yard. But after a few minutes, a College official will direct you to take you game over to Tercentenary Theater. Does Harvard, as the Handbook says, want you to refrain from playing, "boisterous games in the yard," or does the University prefer that you trample on the grass in the area where Commencement will be held...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Of Waffles and T-Bones | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

...occasionally use frozen first there's been a winter storm, but we prefer to use fresh fish," says Assistant Director of Food Services Benjamin H. Walcott...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...proposal would require local telephone companies to ask customers several times which long-distance carrier they would prefer. If the consumers still do not make up their minds, they would go into a pool to be divided among long- distance companies according to the proportions of customers who have already decided. That way everyone would get a share of the default business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telecommunications: Will Phone Callers Speak Up? | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...collection office to become one of the nation's 48,600 licensed women drivers, takes the wheel. The old stereotype? "We don't associate with that," says Robin. Indeed, they do not even communicate much with other drivers over the ubiquitous CB radio. They prefer to schedule upcoming jobs on a mobile cellular telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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