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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republic have both recently printed articles raising questions about his record and his positions. The Washington Post this past Sunday torturously went over Jackson's claim that he cradled the dead King in his arms. And Jackson's letter to Noriega has been publicized sufficiently enough perhaps to prevent him from winning Wisconsin...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: What More Do They Want on Jesse? | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...There is a catagory of people who they areusing to prevent negotiation because they areusing to prevent negotiation because they refuseto take a position," she said...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Eligibility Key to Union Vote | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...chance? You've got to be kidding.' Both responses are appropriate." Individual women may respond differently to the question than medical researchers do. Cost effectiveness is not something that most patients want to hear about, particularly when the money is being spent to prevent cancer. Ultimately, the responsibility for providing accurate information on breast cancer may lie with a woman's physician. And any doctor should be prepared to lay out the facts so that patients can decide for themselves about mammography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mixed Messages on Mammograms | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...companies are no longer arguing about whether second-wave technology is worth adopting; instead, they are concerned about how best to use it. They are finding all sorts of ingenious applications. United Airlines has developed a simple frame-based system called GADS (Gate- Assignment and Display System) to help prevent the infuriating delays that occur when weather and scheduling problems scramble gate assignments for incoming planes. The system encodes the reasoning that gate controllers use when scheduling gate assignments (for example, two adjacent gates cannot accommodate two DC-10s at once). Before GADS, United's gate controllers would physically move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Historians must, of course, dwell on the past, but this should not prevent the Harvard History Department from also looking to the future of the discipline, which certainly lies at least in part in the study of gender. Sonya Michel Head Tutor and Lecturer on Women's Studies

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's History | 3/24/1988 | See Source »

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