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...Mexico City's popular tourist area. "I was having a cup of coffee in bed when my hand and the cup started shaking," Meeus said. "I looked out of the window and saw a building collapse. I turned to my wife and said, 'I think we've got a slight earth tremor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...possible that Reagan is simply driving a hard bargain with the Kremlin, trying to squeeze concessions before agreeing to a deal. He did leave a slight opening by indicating that he would be willing to negotiate with the Soviets before deploying a space-based defense system the hope of persuading them to deploy one too. He insisted, however, not only that research and deployment would continue but that "one day" the system would be tested as well, even if it means revising the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty in order to avoid violating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting the Summit Table | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...Henley, there was no argument. The Tigers took a slight lead at the start of the race, but, by the quarter-mile point, the Crimson began to pull away, leading by a bow. Princeton tried to answer Harvard's whirlwind start with spurts between the half-mile to one-mile markers, but made no real impression...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: How Grand! | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Strauch Report | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

...Henley, there was no argument. The Tigers took a slight lead at the start of the race, but, by the quarter-mile point, the Crimson began to pull away, leading by a bow. Princeton tried to answer Harvard's whirlwind start with spurts between the half-mile to one-mile markers, but made no real impression...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: How Grand! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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