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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track and is always sarcastic, even in bed. When one woman remarks, after a mutual climax, "God, we should have done that a long time ago," Theron simply answers "Done what?" Finally challenged by his ex-wife to say something serious, his only response is "Gross National Product...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel and Cecil D. Quillen, S | Title: Academia's Angst | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Although Irving admires and emulates the expansive methods of Victorian fiction, he is, after all, a product of this century and all of its horrors. He cannot, like Dickens, honestly trick out a story with coincidences that will allow good people to triumph; the best Irving can offer is a tale that concludes with a few survivors who are not entirely maimed or deranged by what they have been through. Irving's plot absolves his people; it is so punishing that they are innocent by comparison. If abortion can ease their suffering, then the abortionist must be heroic. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Orphan Or an Abortion: The Cider House Rules | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...There is no justice in this society, and so long as there is no justice, let there be no peace." Since then, Rawlings has moderated his rhetoric. He has imposed an austerity package prescribed by the International Monetary Fund, which has, among other things, eliminated government subsidies on oil products and devalued the cedi, Ghana's hyperinflated currency. Last year the country's gross national product rose for the first time in a decade. Says John Ijichi, Ghana's loan officer at the World Bank in Washington: "What is refreshing in Ghana is that people openly admit that the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Africa Hope and Ideals | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams, began in 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration linked extremely large doses of the artificial sweetener to bladder cancer in laboratory animals. As a result, the FDA proposed that the use of saccharin be outlawed. Congress thwarted the agency's move by giving the product an exemption from a federal law that prohibits the sale of any substance found to cause cancer in animals or humans. That reprieve ran out last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Regulation Congress to the Rescue | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...been generated thus far. As graduate students who reported to the Strauch Committee, we lament this and hope that the report will be more widely read and openly debated among the university community. Discussion is particularly vital because of the report's occasionally self-congratulatory content. It is the product of many minds; contradictions on basic issues have survived unresolved in the final version. The response of the FAS community will help determine how these disagreements are untangled and acted upon In addition, the Report itself legislate nothing. In order for actual changes to take place in the GSAS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rounding Out the Strauch Report | 5/17/1985 | See Source »

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