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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Ravenel, Democratic nominee for governor of South Carolina in 1974, and the U.S. Senate in 1978, is the first class marshal for the Class of 1961. response to the switch from Latin to Englishdiplomas. We protested becoming modern. Itwas a paean to liturgy...

Author: By Charles DUFORT Ravenel, | Title: That Was the College Then, This Is Now | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, and AT&T, the leading provider of long-distance telephone service, last week named new chief executive officers. The change in command at Ma Bell had been anticipated, but the timing of the Gannett switch came as a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changes At the Helm At&T And | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Putting together a coed room in another house usually requires some sort of switch. Donna and Rob had paired with another man and woman who also wanted to room together. The two males and two females entered the lottery together and then changed doubles...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Coed Living at Harvard | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

...nation with deep economic disparities like Venezuela (while in the past eluding many countries in the same area); in a small, underdeveloped country like Botswana (while much of the region lives under one-party rule). But to assume that we can bring democracy to other lands by throwing a switch or withdrawing support from a dictator evokes the image of the divine-right monarch ready to "give" a constitution to his people. Democracy can be helped and nurtured, but it cannot be given. It was imposed on Japan and to a lesser extent on West Germany by American occupation ! forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Marcos, Baby Doc - Why Not the Rest? | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...meat for school lunches, overseas military bases and other uses. But for the next several months, those purchases are not expected to keep pace with the dairy slaughter. Says Rancher Jack Sparrowk, who runs a herd of 25,000 cattle near Sacramento: "The USDA is asleep at the switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beef Glut | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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