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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been trying to leave for eight years. His name was one of five on a special list of cancer victims requesting emigration. There were reports that a large number of long-standing cases like these would be resolved in the next few months. That is perhaps the next major test of the seriousness of the program of democratization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Is Happening Here | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

When Yugoslavia's Yugo invaded the U.S. in 1985, Americans got their first chance to test the workmanship of a Communist automaker. The reaction so far has been lukewarm, but now another East European country is preparing an assault on the U.S. market. Auto-Dacia, Rumania's state-run car company, plans to introduce its Oltcit, Aro and Dacia models this spring. That could start a price war among comrades. The Oltcit, a three-door hatchback, will go for $3,980 -- $10 less than the cost of a Yugo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Here Come Oltcit and Dacia | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

This alleged tenet of the Yuppie faith is being put to the test by several companies recruiting graduating seniors on campus this semester. Of the 150 companies which will come to Harvard over the next several weeks to lure seniors, eight--including the prestigious investment banking firms Kidder, Peabody and Morgan, Stanley--have informed the Office of Career Services (OCS) that applicants vying for positions with them have to undergo drug-testing before being hired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Drug-Testing | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...much higher level of applications" this year. Apparently it is easy for many individuals to ignore their alleged principles--or at least the one that says what people do in their private lives is not subject to outside scrutiny and judgment--once they are put to an economic test. As one senior told The Crimson when asked how he As one senior told The Crimson when asked felt about taking a drug test in order to get a high-playing job: "It's okay, because I'm clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Drug-Testing | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

Those who failed the driving test were failed for "nitpicky things," said Freeman, who passed. But the captain said he is unable to drive buses larger than the medium-sized shuttles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shuttle Bus Drivers Take Tests | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

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