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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back into the local economy. Sure, McDonald's has low prices, but that does not mean McDonald's benefits the working class in the long run. National chains take revenues out of the area in favor of corporate payoffs elsewhere. They crush local small business owners because chains can pump so much capital into their new locations. This ends local character and diversity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franchise Is Not `Proletarian' | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

That increase would be enough to roughly matchthe amount Princeton, Yale or Stanford will spendon their students next year, without taking moneyfrom any other program or forcing FAS to pump infunds not already restricted...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Has Funds To Raise Student Aid | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...played really well in the last five games," said Morris. "We don't play worse when there's no one in the bleachers, but it would be nice to have a crowd to pump...

Author: By P. IVONNE Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Volleyball Whips Yale | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...does make me grumpy that the only acting classes we offer are minimal--the real world demands so much more," Shaw says. "We have great acting teachers, but there's nothing about [the classes] that makes the adrenaline pump...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: These our actors | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

Harvard is supposedly a school which will pump us full of the skills and credentials that can be used to make the world a better place. Taking advantage of all that Harvard has to offer is a great idea, but ensconcing oneself in a tower of elitism, academia and complacency...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Stuck in the Tower | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

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