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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University's three smallest schools--Education, Divinity and Design--often face completely different problems in their efforts to raise money, but they are united in the need to vigorously promote their ideologies rather than simply relying on the affluence and good will of their graduates...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: FUNDS WITHOUT ALUMS | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...five-year capital campaign, which began in the spring of 1994, aims to raise $2.1 billion University-wide, but only $135 million is intended to be raised for the three smallest graduate schools combined...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: FUNDS WITHOUT ALUMS | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...conquered the machine. To others, it seems, the goal is to show off one's presumed strength by strutting the length of the room wearing a huge leather support belt. Most of us fall into neither of these categories, delighted to do what we can when even the smallest amount of weight is a challenge to lift...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Following the Worse Path | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...smallest contingent of mask-makers was a group of Brownies affiliated with the Girl Scouts of America...

Author: By Martin G. Hickey, | Title: Eliot HAND Students Mask Young Cantabrigians | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...Liggett Group, smallest of the U.S.'s Big Five cigarette makers, broke ranks in March and conceded not only that tobacco is addictive but also that the company has known it all along. While RJR Nabisco and the others continue to battle in the courts--insisting that smokers are not hooked, just exercising free choice--their denials ring increasingly hollow in the face of the growing weight of evidence. Over the past year, several scientific groups have made the case that in dopamine-rich areas of the brain, nicotine behaves remarkably like cocaine. And late last week a federal judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADDICTED: WHY DO PEOPLE GET HOOKED? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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