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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale, who has some deficiencies of his own, achieve such a solid lead in the Democratic race? Only a decade ago, he withdrew from the primaries with one of the most self-damning confessions in recent political memory: "I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President." Even his Minnesota mentor, Hubert Humphrey, wondered whether Mondale had "fire in the belly." That question, which once seemed an obstacle to Mondale's presidential ambitions, has been laid to rest. These days Fritz's boilers glow red hot as he assails Reagan for replacing the New Deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primed for a Test | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...deadly Carrabino-Ferry combination that worries Penn Coach Craig Littlepage most. "Carrabino and Ferry are a very solid inside and outside combination," he says. "They'll definitely be the keys...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: In Search of...Cagers Head South | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...grappled with problems related to the theories of melting, hydrodynamics--dynamics of fields in motion--turbulence, magnetism, and liquid crystals. Most recently, Nelson has taken up the question of the transition from solid to liquid matter...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: A Glance at the Four Winners | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

...fostering excellence, they must appropriate their funds where they will do the most good. Specifically, universities must help advanced placement programs in rural, oft neglected regions of the country where many gifted students go unnoticed, and bolster the quality and quality of offerings in those schools that already have solid programs...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Going Too Fast | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

...that a competent examination could be administered should the occasion arise, this in itself should not be too difficult. The student group could go on, however, to conduct international language into the curriculum proper--where it belongs (and is now found in universities elsewhere in the world)--on solid academic and humanist grounds...

Author: By Roy Mccoy, | Title: Esperanto at Harvard? | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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