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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Class of '89 has already made pledges of $34,485, almost $3000 short of the record set in 1986. This year's class gift could end up as much as $15,000 more than last year's total. In addition, the partipation rate has risen from 33 percent to almost 45 percent, according to Class Gift Committee Co-Chair Jack Orchard...
...large, politically powerful constituencies, Bush refused to tax costly, non means-based entitlement programs like Social Security or Medicare for the wealthy or to put a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle class, such as mortgage interest deductions, and instead urged a dramatic cut in the tax rate on capital gains...
Even with the total amount of donations reaching a possible record, the participation rate of about 45 percent is slightly below average, as in some years as much as 60 percent have contributed...
...trend-hungry New Yorkers, so it seemed perfectly appropriate that the department store was the first in town to sell the latest product of perestroika: imported Soviet rye bread, hot off the flight from Moscow. Bloomingdale's last week was selling the two-pound loaves (price: $6) at the rate of 30 an hour...
...American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look for stronger leadership. Cultural anthropologist Masao Kunihiro says that during a recent lecture tour he found voters "increasingly becoming aware of international affairs"; eventually, he suggests, "they will choose more genuinely international...