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...worry about John De Lorean. Once he gets over this crisis he will revert to being the entrepreneur. He will begin work on his autobiography, which will be made into a motion picture, and he will become a highly paid speaker on the lecture circuit. If he goes to jail he will be born again and will make inspiring sermons...
...subject is clouded by some complex, tentative provisions of the settlement earlier this year of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against AT&T, which will lead to divestiture of its 22 operating subsidiaries early in 1984. Then ownership of the phones in customers' homes will revert to AT&T, and the local companies will be unable either to rent or sell them to customers. Thus the local companies are now under pressure to sell, so customers are being offered some attractive deals. That standard rotary-dial phone that New York Telephone now rents for $36.36 per year...
...business district to the wretched squatter camps near Aberdeen, the consuming topic of conversation nowadays is what exactly will happen to Hong Kong before July 1, 1997. That is the date when more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China under the terms of the 99-year lease that imperial Britain wrested from the tottering Qing Dynasty in 1898. Although earlier treaties gave Britain the remaining 34 sq. mi. in perpetuity, that area depends on the New Territories for food and water and cannot survive alone. Literally overnight...
...minority groups at Harvard consider tactics they inevitably revert to this archetypal view of the Harvard man. "Male," says the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). "White," say the Black Students Association (BSA) and La Raza, the Chicago students group. "Upper class," says the William J. Seymour Society, a Black fundamentalist Christian group concerned with issues of economic equality. "Heterosexual," says the Gay Students Association (GSA). What these groups have in common, says RUS President Sharon J. Orr '83, is that "Harvard doesn't understand...
Broadcaster Watts is one of the few islanders to discuss the dilemma openly. "British ships and the British military presence is something we have always wanted here. Now we must decide whether we can carry on our lives underneath all this British pressure or whether we revert to the way of life we had before, with the same dangers. It's no good saying we can forget about the Argentines. We can't. The military have taken over our airport. We are going to have to learn where this leaves us and where this is going to take...