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...convoy of three reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers and three U.S. warships began to make its way north through the gulf to Kuwait, it was disclosed that the vessels were protected by the amphibious assault ship U.S.S. Guadalcanal and its RH-53 Sea Stallion minesweeping helicopters. The choppers, the same type used last week by Iran, flew ahead of the convoy, dragging mine-detecting sonar devices through the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Time for Sweeping Gestures | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...transaction was a big-league leveraged buyout, the increasingly popular type of acquisition financed largely through borrowed funds. In this case, Lewis got the money from the high-rolling Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. When the takeover is completed, TLC is expected to rake in $2 billion in annual revenues -- far more than the $173.5 million reported last year by Johnson Publishing (Ebony magazine), which topped Black Enterprise magazine's list of the largest black-owned companies. Says Lewis of his new stature: "I like to stretch myself. I like to face challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Into the Big Time | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...make sure you've punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Response | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

This longing may be affected by the type of question (it's a lot easier to cheat on a true-false test than an essay exam) and it is certainly affected by frustration level. If you can't for the life of you remember one out of 100 multiple choice questions, it seems pretty darn stupid to risk the other 99 by looking over someone's shoulder. If you have gone through all 100 and haven't gotten one so far, you might feel you have less to lose by trying to pick up a couple answers the slimy...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Let the Games Begin | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

William Walsh's recent election to the Cambridge City Council as a conservative, anti-rent control representative of the landlords, marked the coming of a new type of politician to the city, council candidate Ed Cyr says. While other anti-rent control candidates such as Mayor Walter Sullivan essentially campaign by appealing to ethnic affinity and personal ties, Walsh was the first candidate to take the issue of rent control seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reining in Blue Collar Workers | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

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