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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's more to France, however. There is, for instance, the vastly different world of the peasant, as I found out while living and working last summer on a small farm in southeast France. Life was very different there, and I learned a lot from the family I stayed with--Henri and Charlotte Vallet and their 23-year-old son Gilles...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Although Advent made the decision to leave Cambridge last summer, the corporation did not plan on moving until this spring. However, because of a slackening of business in November which Sprague would have required a two- to three-month lay-off for a large number of workers, he felt Advent should use its lag time to move rather than wait...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Advent Corporation Leaves Cambridge | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

McGraw called the Amexco bid "illegal, improper, unsolicited and surprising," and charged that Amexco "lacks the integrity, corporate morality and sensitivity to professional responsibility" essential to McGraw-Hill's operations. He claimed that Robinson had agreed last summer not to bid for McGraw-Hill after his informal overtures had been turned down, and that he was now guilty of "an unprecedented breach of trust." McGraw thundered that Morley, by continuing to sit on the McGraw-Hill board until the bid was made, "clearly violated his fiduciary duties to McGraw-Hill and the stockholders ... by misappropriating confidential information and conspiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Guns for Hire | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Spring is a lyrical, intricate pas de deux for Kyra Nichols and Daniel Duell (who are husband and wife). It is the surest, most elegant part of the ballet. Summer, danced by Stephanie Saland and Bart Cook, is brief, languid and dreamy-it ends, in fact, with the couple dozing. Before that, however, they have hovered and swayed like goldenrod in their burnished costumes; this is a new and seemingly airborne partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Stepping Up to Paradise | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...wasn't until last summer and fall, when the U.S. press at last gave deeper attention to Iran, that some important nuances came clearer. TIME'S September cover story "Iran in Turmoil," for example, reports "the mullahs, for all their abhorrence of the decadent excesses of modernism, have traditionally been political progressives." (The Columbia Review article overlooks such considered judgments, and itself may have too cockily declared that the Shi'ites "are not interested in running the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing Catch-Up in Iran | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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