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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such twisted history would ignore the lack of success Bennett had on reversing college costs or addressing the drug crisis. It would also ignore the fact that Bennett led the administration's dangerous policy of attempting to cut student aid and shift the burden from grants to loans, which most experts agree is the real reason for today's record default rates. And despite all of Bennett's bluster, Congress consistently refused to go along with his requests for cuts, leaving him with a record of few substantive accomplishments...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Bye, Bye Wild Bill | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

Although SPH will monitor the success of the project, it will not conduct "a full-blown investigation," DeJong said. With the cooperation of certain advertising agencies and polling organizations, project researchers will look for a change in attitudes about driving drunk...

Author: By Pradeep P. Atluri, | Title: SPH Joins TV Alcohol Program | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...There are some success stories," said Borges, who now advises other candidates on sticker campaigns. But, he added, they are few and far between...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Sticker Campaign Seen As Long Shot | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...have to win just to justify the amount of work I've put in," Thompson says. "I don't think of it as the work since the last success but as the work since the very beginning. To me, it's always been accumulative. But even to lose, I think I'd still do it. No matter how it's gone or how it goes, I wouldn't change anything. It fulfills me to be what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...astounding success of the G.D.R. team has raised inevitable questions of secret drugs or revolutionary training methods. "That's all nonsense," says Karlheinz Gieseler, secretary-general of the West German Sports Federation and a longtime observer of East German sports. "What makes the G.D.R. so great is the successive pruning out and systematic training of their talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Watch Out For the G.D.R. | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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