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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike the GSAS and the Law School, the B-School's flexible, twoyear relatively inexpensive curriculum attracts future executives trying to wedge their way into a tight job market...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Getting Down To Business | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...hoopsters' second-half surge sealed a Harvard win after a tight first half...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Jeffrey R. Toobin, S | Title: Crimson B-Ballers Shoot to Third Place At EAIAW Division One A Tournament | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Storage space is almost as tight as on a spaceship, and living quarters are as cramped as they were for Captain Bligh's midshipmen. Says a California boatwife: "When you cook corned beef and cabbage, everything you wear next day smells like corned beef and cabbage." Miamian Tom Dixon, 35, who inhabits a relatively spacious 45-ft. catamaran houseboat he designed and built, notes that his 360-sq.-ft. living area is the equivalent of a one-car garage. Even at a dock, high winds and storms can make a boat dweller feel as if he were inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Boat People, American-Style | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Throughout the first act, tight writing and capable acting hide the problems that became increasingly annoying as the show winds its way to its final burst of nervous optimism. Blocking problems, which seem minor at first, keep recurring. Too often what passes for choreography becomes simply two pairs facing each other as the featured character prances in between. Every now and then, all five actresses line up at the edge of the stage, choir-style, and start singing. They're singing quite nicely, to be sure, but the show loses its dramatic force when the players only produce the theatrical...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Tight Spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four-Alarm Blaze Strikes Warehouse At Industrial Park | 2/27/1979 | See Source »

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