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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...products will sell at K mart prices (a five-piece place setting should be about $20) and will necessarily reflect a compromise between Stewart's champagne tastes and the retailer's beer budget. Class, in most cases, carries the day, but there are exceptions. Says K mart executive Marilyn Gill: "It was difficult for Martha to understand why not everyone would want a 100%- cotton tablecloth." Looks as if practicality won that round: the cloth will probably be a blend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Guru of American Taste? | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...joking aside, though, the survey results reflect a very serious problem in our society. Since it requires two people to give the same response for an answer to go up on the board, it is frightening to consider the answers that were not listed. "Get a job" or "Help support the family" were said by fewer than...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Slanting the Answers | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...municipality to be an affront to persons of other faiths or of none," says Dean Kelley, director for religious liberty at the National Council of Churches. "As for a menorah, two wrongs don't make a right." Others insist that religiously inspired symbols should be permitted when they reflect U.S. tradition. "As long as we're going to have Christmas as a national holiday," says Fordham University law professor Charles Whelan, "it makes sense to allow the display of a creche." But as Columbia University law professor Vincent Blasi points out, there is a catch. "In order to uphold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Revisiting The Reindeer Rule | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...first away meet of the season," Papailias said. "We hadn't had any big competition, and we weren't ready for a team like Columbia. The scores definitely don't reflect what kind of team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Downs Swordswomen, 15-1, Deals Terrible Blow to Harvard Hopes | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...this worth such an indulgence of our wealth? Virtually no one argues -- not the tourists, not Congress and certainly not the Reagans. They have probably done more than any other First Couple to make the house reflect America's heritage, from Charles Russell's vivid Western scenes to the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, the first painting put in the new White House in 1800 and the only one saved when the British burned the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The $50 Million Face-Lift | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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