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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that need be said here is that distributional weights, as commonly understood in out professional literature, simply do not enter these dimensions.... In the end, then, we cannot condemn as crass or unfeeling the idea our profession's moving towards-a consensus based on the traditional criterion of efficiency. (Journal of Political; Economy, April...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Harberger: A Deadly Naivete | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

This combination of demonic and domestic is apt, since Le Gum, 50, has spent much of her life successfully balancing the two. The only daughter of Anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber, Ursula grew up in a lively intellectual home. Her three older brothers all became college professors, and her mother Theodora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worlds Enough and Time | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Until he suffered a stroke in 1972, Durante had as much vitality off-stage as he did on. Throughout his life, he would stay up late with show business cronies, joking around. In a profession where rivalries tend to be fierce, he had no known enemies. Nor did he adopt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A King of Vaudeville | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Though Dr. Nick's testimony portrayed Presley as heavily dependent on drugs, there was still a question whether they killed him. The drugs found in Presley's body, some medical observers noted, were not at lethal levels and his longtime abuse of medication probably made Presley tolerant of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Junkie King | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

In a profession of the gladhander, Sears-a man with prominent, intense blue eyes and the softening physique of a person seldom exposed to sun, wind or exercise-at times muses introspectively about his profession. Says he: "You never really win anything in politics. All you get is a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Going Far by Going Slow | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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