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...notion of inviting senior citizens to a high school-style prom originated with three students, Jennifer Dell, Nancy Becker and Lori Freeman. About 90 people between 50 and 91 years old, most of whom had missed their own proms because they were in the armed forces, cut a rug to the music of Michael Jackson as well as Benny Goodman. Seventy-five West Bloomfield students volunteered as dates for seniors who had none. Said Dell: "One little man I thought would never stop dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: A Real Senior Prom | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Such a move would be devastating for the small companies that have been importing $1.4 million worth of the coffee annually. Says Rink Dickinson, president of Boston-based Equal Exchange, which sells Nicaraguan coffee under its Cafe Nica label: "We feel the rug has been arbitrarily pulled out from under us." Sympathetic Congressmen are urging the Administration to drop the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANCTIONS: Close to the Last Drop | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...American Express, a new computer system contains the cloned expertise of platoons of specialists who approve unusual credit requests for the company's estimated 20 million U.S. cardholders. For the first time, the computer will decide whether to okay the purchase of, say, a $5,000 Oriental rug by a usually prudent spender -- or nix the transaction on the suspicion that the cardholder is on a buying spree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Instead Bok's decision skirted most of the controversy. Rest assured, though, such questions will not be so easily swept under the rug in the court case. As one professor said after Bok's decision was announced. "I would expect a large percentage of the faculty to testify on [Dalton's] behalf against the University, well over 50 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Questions | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

...rug has been pulled out from under us just to fill a federal requirement," said Carolyn Mieth, a member of ATAC and the Cambridge Planning Board...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: N. Cambridge Seething Over Plan For Route 2 Highway Expansion | 3/15/1988 | See Source »

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