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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Khomeini remains the undisputed leader of Iran, "moderates" will wield little influence. The fact that the leader of an entire nation would repeatedly issue a threat against a single individual proves the instability of Khomeini and his lack of understanding of the sanctity of human life. In the present poisoned climate, normality seems impossible...
Corporate executives argue that FASB is trying to reform the system too rapidly. The accounting change could slash earnings at some firms by half and put others into the red. As corporations are forced to account for their retirement obligations, many are expected to cut such benefits for their present workers. Corporations will have until 1992 to submit their arguments against the plan or plead for a delay...
...Darman's negotiations with Congress present serpentine challenges worthy of a Kafka plot, his personality has the dense texturing of a protagonist in a Nabokov novel. Contradictions little and large adorn his life. He owns two racehorses but never bets on them because he doesn't gamble. Last year when his aged Audi expired, he agonized for weeks before acquiring a new Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into...
...peace and justice group called Clergy and Laity Concerned won the right to promote its cause among Chicago high school students. Yet in San Diego, the site of a large naval installation, the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities has found little resistance to its counselors, who regularly present slide shows and distribute pamphlets in local schools...
...seem to have fulfilled Harvard's wish of unifying the museums. One of the building's designers, Charles Gwathmey, who will be discussing his firm's work at the Fogg next Thursday, said last week that the project "imaged [the museums] into a kind of architectural assemblage that would present the Fogg as an institution of parts but all interconnected." Accordingly, the plans demonstrate how the architects integrated old and new into a cohesive unit, both structurally and aesthetically...