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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clyde H. Greenert, Union Carbide's director of public issues, said yesterday that his company had stopped funding the center because it disagreed with the study. "We decided to stop funding for a variety of reasons, certainly including the fact that [the EEPC] is a proponent of something that would...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Center Lost Federal Funds After Report | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Still, there's something disconcerting about the purists who view last night's first game under the lights at the old ball field as Black Monday. One novelist was interviewed some time ago about the impending tragedy. He waxed philosophical about the meaning of the game, the importance of leisure...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: "Yeah, Gimme a Light" | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

But what Jackson omits in his discussion of the drug problem is just as revealing. He almost never mentions drug rehabilitation programs, or even the concept of rehabilitation. If anything, he's more likely to rely on something like conversion, in which the sin is confessed, forgiven and then washed...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The Search for Czars | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

Of the presidential aspirants the white Baptist--television evangelist Pat Robertson--is tops. Robertson is right on every "biblical, family, moral freedom issue" save one. The preacher misses a perfect score because he favors imposing "sin taxes" on those who indulge in vices. Though arguably laudable, this is nonetheless an...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: What the Bible Says | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

Speech-writers just don't get enough thanks for what they do. Bob Shrum, the , private wordsmith for the Kennedy family's public utterances, was called in to cobble together something for the convention's Kennedy reunion. He not only wrote John Kennedy Jr.'s introduction of Uncle Ted and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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