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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are only two good things about Marvel. The first is a ten-foot high metal bear, which stands in front of the gym to scare you away. The other good thing is that Brown will move to the new Pizzitola Sports Center after this season...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Best and Worst Places to Watch the Ivy League Play | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...amendment boosts the number of student directors from seven to ten. Voting student members approved the proposal 66 to 1 with 1 abstention. The number of senior directors remains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...Channel Five told me what the networks had sworn not to divulge until 11:00 p.m.--that George Bush will be the forty-first President. When ABC projected that he had captured Missouri's ten electoral votes, Bush crossed the magic threshold of 270 electoral votes...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Bush's Victory Is Hollow | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

...antics. And delighted. "Dessert sales started going up two or three years ago, and there seems to be no end in sight," reports Leonce Picot, owner of the Down Under and Casa Vecchia in Fort Lauderdale, La Vieille Maison in Boca Raton and the Old House in Monterey, Calif. Ten years ago, only 25% to 30% of diners in his restaurants ordered dessert. Now, says Picot, as many as 70% of Florida customers and 80% of those in California are indulging. Boston's Ritz-Carlton hotel and Shaw's Crab House in Chicago confirm the trend: dessert sales at both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Let Them Eat Cake! | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Buyouts have become so attractive that they are sweeping through corporate boardrooms like no other business fad in memory. In the first ten months of 1988, according to IDD Information Services, a Manhattan research firm, 143 companies were taken private in buyouts worth $91 billion, in contrast to 105 deals worth $36 billion during the same period of 1987. These transactions are enriching shareholders and buyout specialists, but the takeovers could be causing grave damage to U.S. industry. Never before has debt been substituted for shareholders' equity on such a huge scale. No one knows how these highly leveraged companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Big-Time Buyouts | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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