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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smart Aleck--Institute of Contemporary Art-Theater, 955 Boylston St., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oct. 15-21 | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

Last week the S.D.P. made another smart move: party leaders attended the Liberal Party's conference in Wales and there agreed to form an alliance to fight the next election. The Liberals, who have not held power alone since 1915, have only eleven M.P.s (out of 635), but they polled 14% of the vote in the general election of 1979. The marriage with the S.D.P. may have been one of convenience rather than passion, but if the two parties had remained separate they would have canceled each other out scrambling for the key centrist vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Turmoil Right and Left | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...defense goes higher in criminal cases in some states). The lawyer need not give any reason, or even have any. "It's very upsetting to get bounced," says John Shore, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. "To be denied because you're too smart, or because you're the wrong race or socioeconomic group-that's nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, the Jury, Find the . . . | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...like a good paper," said Donald O'Brien, marketing vice president of the Jordan Marsh department store. "We're going to help promote it, and we're going to be in it heavily." Added Filene's sales vice president, Virginia Harris: "It's a smart move because it is so totally different from the Globe. I think they've got a good chance of making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Stooping to Conquer in Boston | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...first Republican Senator from his state since Jeter Pritchard arrived in Washington in 1895, Helms moved his family into a plain, $46,000 house in suburban Arlington, Va. He assembled a squad of smart, youngish devotees more ruthlessly conservative, if that is possible, than he. After weeks of new-boy floundering, Helms was taken in hand by the late Senator James Allen of Alabama. Allen taught him all the parliamentary angles, and the pupil waded eagerly into the minutiae of procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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