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Word: revs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Black students, politicized since the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. through the African and Afro-American Association of Students (commonly called Afro), largely avoided the radical, anti-war political groups such as SDS, centering their activism on the issue of an Afro-American Studies Department...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Afro-American Studies: A Legacy of Black Student Activism | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Denver got an unusual proposal last year from their pastor. If they would turn in their guns, the Rev. Marshall Gourley told them, he would give $100 for each of them. Tired of officiating at the funerals of shooting victims, the priest has mounted a crusade against handgun violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denver: Gun Control at The Altar | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...kidnaped Jan. 8, 1985) peers under his blindfold at the new arrival. A month later, they are led down to the dungeon, a basement partitioned into cramped cells with thin plasterboard, and held prisoner with others: William Buckley, Beirut station chief of the CIA (kidnaped March 16, 1984), the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary (kidnaped May 8, 1984), and eventually David Jacobsen, director of American University Hospital (kidnaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages The Lost Life Of Terry Anderson | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...line of workstations with up to 60 times the power of a PC. Data General may have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength of the new machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Where The Action Is | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...Atlanta, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged President Bush to intervene and vowed to join machinists on the picket line this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastern Urges Pilots to Cross Picket Lines | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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