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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some program for winning through positive thought or effective management or life/stress maintenance programs. But read the whole collection of Donald Trump/Lee lacocca/Ed Koch "How-I-Did-It" books, and you'll end up with only one piece of solid advice: hard work is the only way to achieve success...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...addition to the Alabama meet, the Ivy crown and the Eastern championships, the Crimson will have a fourth goal: improved success at the NCAA championships, held in March in Austin, Tex. Last year marked the first time Harvard sent swimmers to the meet, and it wishes to improve on that showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Looking For NCAA Birth | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...center's success may be fashion. Hollensteiner has abandoned last year's look--taped goggles and funky, long boxer shorts. Now Mal looks, and shoots, much better...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: The Art of Crushing the Weak | 12/1/1987 | See Source »

That assertion now has an unintended irony in light of the three authors' public success. Last Intellectuals is in its second printing, and while it has not yet matched Bloom's and Hirsch's sales, it is a brisk seller and has sparked spirited debate over its thesis. America, Jacoby says, is producing no young crop of heirs to the great public writer-thinkers like H.L. Mencken and Thorstein Veblen, whose works set directions and standards 60 and 70 years ago. Nor, he notes, have successors emerged for the current senior generation of broad-gauge university scholars like David Riesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where Are All the Young Brains? | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...capture is a victory in President Corazon Aquino's drive against the Communist-led guerrillas. Rivera is one of the N.P.A.'s experts in political assassination and a veteran of its 19-year war. In another small success for Aquino, Lieut. Colonel Roberto Navida, 38, surrendered to the government. Navida had helped Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan mount the failed August coup against Aquino and then had gone into hiding with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Phillipines: This Time a Coup for Cory | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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