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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faded out of sight during the next 10 years, and then Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. `59 stopped asking the house committees to send CRR delegates...
...seems that Miss Grossman's main objection is a common one: the sight of Mexicans working as servants and in other lowly positions makes her squeamish and uncomfortable. Perhaps she would prefer that the workers simply "go away," so their presence will not offend her liberal sensitivities. Miss Grossman does not realize that what for her is a source of irritation is for the Mexican worker a means, often the only means of survival. To stay "out of sight and out of mind" in Mexico would probably mean remaining unemployed, or at best accepting work at much lower...
Although the mercury rose slightly at week's end, weathermen predicted a new plunge in temperatures and warned that there was no relief in sight from the harshest winter in recent memory. One almost certain result: a hike in the cost of oil on both sides of the Atlantic as the sudden European demand drives up prices in world markets...
Still, the show seems to have an appealing goal in sight: a friendly kaffee- klatsch in the tradition of radio's long-running The Breakfast Club. Some of the ideas work. Bob Saget, the show's announcer and "sidekick," narrated a funny home video of his own wedding. Writers Roy Blount Jr. and Calvin Trillin were on hand with wry commentaries. And a few of the segments (like an interview with a Wall Street executive at the gym where he goes boxing before work) struck just the right, what's-new-this-morning? tone...
...just listened -- and told his anecdotes." Most of the advice -- to fire Chief of Staff Don Regan and claim the whole Iran arms deal was a mistake -- has gone unheeded. "I don't like lynch mobs," the President told some friends. Read: Regan stays. "Not by a damn sight am I going to accept the status quo," he declared at one of last week's sessions. Translation: Reagan is not going to stop experimenting because he fumbled...