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While Bok has receives widespread praise for his work in expanding these nascent arrangements national anti apartheid groups criticize his contention that the programs area a substitute for as opposed to a complement to other actions such as divestiture.

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: The Bok Alternative | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

The basic flaw with Taylor and Burton is that they lack any flak for feather-light comedy. They substitute double or sextuple entendre, as when Taylor says, "I feel rather scared of marriage really," looking out at the audience with the eyes of a wounded doe. What the Elyot-Amanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: King Midas Calls the Tune | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Police and FBI officials were as mystified as the management of Sotheby's. The gem, known as Lot 296 and owned by a consortium of Japanese businessmen, had been protected by armed security guards and videocameras that snapped pictures every ten seconds. Nonetheless, when a customer asked to examine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Ice | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

"Recovery," says Vaillant, "occurs through a series of events coming together." One is that alcoholics usually need some kind of substitute for alcohol, such as tranquilizers or psychotherapy or a support group of people with similar problems. "Second, even though it's terribly unscientific, alcoholics usually do seem to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Insights into Alcoholism | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

The law in question is the Boland Amendment, a little-noticed rider tacked onto an omnibus Government-spending bill last December. Ironically, it was adopted at the urging of the Administration, as a substitute for a far more restrictive measure proposed by Democrat Thomas Harkin of Iowa. Harkin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arguing About Means and Ends | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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