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...cattle pen at Memorial Hall, in which case it will cost you $40. While you're at it, be sure not to change your study card after it's been filed ($15) or, worse, file it late ($30 a week). Also, don't forget to keep your keys, athletic sticker, and athletic ticket books on your person at all times--preferably through a painless surgical procedure--because it will set you back $10 for Harvard to grumble and snap and conjure up replacements from their cartloads of duplicate supplies. It would seem sensible to copy your keys at Dickson Brothers...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: In Loco Parentis? | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

...unwelcome guest adds a comic touch of paranoia. Guilty of having peeled the leasing sticker from her car, she fears that the Irish police will not let her leave the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illuminations and Reflections | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Nicholas (a loosely disguised Peter Bogdanovich, played by Roger Rees) her estranzed husband assaults her, blows her head off, and then turns the gun on himself. A fit subject for Hollywood style moralizing, but Fosse is not reminding us that all that glitters is not gold--the modern bumper sticker message that "Life sucks and then you die" seems more applicable...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Anatomy of an Anatomy | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...home, meanwhile, Americans have been saving on imported goods ranging from French wines to Japanese videotape recorders. A top-of-the-line German camera that cost $1,159 last year now sells for about $950. Experts estimate that the strong dollar has cut some $700 from the sticker price of a new Toyota Corolla. Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, says that the dollar's strength "makes the vast majority of consumers very happy. But they don't have a spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reining In the Runaway Dollar | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...seen the mood on Capitol Hill as ugly as it is now toward the Japanese." Unemployed Americans focus their anger upon the Japanese, at least when they are not blaming Ronald Reagan. In West Virginia, a charity raised money by selling sledgehammer hits on a Toyota. A recession bumper sticker read: WHEN YOU BOUGHT YOUR JAPANESE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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