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...slap in the face It's like saving [to Black students], "Come to our college, even through you're not really qualified,'" Owen said...

Author: By Carol M. Losos, | Title: Author Blasts SAT Use In College Admissions | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

...manufacturer. Japanese policies leave just a minuscule 2% of the country's $11.5 billion tobacco market to foreigners. Says Peter Hoult, Reynolds' vice president of marketing: "Some of the government controls are like a land mine. You never know where they'll show up." Not only do the Japanese slap taxes on imported cigarettes to boost some of their prices 40% above Japanese brands, but they have also laid down a phalanx of other barriers. It was not until 1981, for example, that Japan increased the number of outlets that could sell the smokes from a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pounding on Tokyo's Door | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

They are the kind of little signs you might slap together at home a few minutes before a big hockey game to wave between periods...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bulldog Hockey Mania: The Only Show in Town | 3/21/1985 | See Source »

This movie ought to come adorned with cautionary labels. "Fragile!" "Handle with Care!" "Use No Hooks!" But how do you slap a sticker on a soap bubble? The temptation, then, is simply to let it drift, shimmering and iridescent as it dances on rare currents of wit and nostalgia, and to hope, of course, that it comes to a safe resting place in millions of memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Now Playing At the Jewel the Purple Rose of Cairo | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...guess a program like that is good in that it reminds people of the problems (of alcohol abuse), but you can only slap people in the face to many times," said junior Margaret A. Stimpson...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Wellesley to Start New Alcohol Abuee Program | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

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