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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's decision to approve a plan for a commercial "inn" on the former Gulf station site on Mass Ave., community residents are displaying an uncharacteristic attitude of clam resignation...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Community Gives Reluctant Nod to Hotel | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...days after publicly apologizing to political supporters for his involvement with a male prostitute, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 ruled out retirement from the House of Representatives in the wake of allegations of personal misconduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Won't Resign Congressional Seat | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...billion junk-bond market has grown explosively since the early 1980s, when Drexel Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken pioneered the use of high- yield bonds as a means to finance hostile takeovers. In the wake of his indictment last March for insider trading and racketeering, Milken has resigned his Drexel post and stayed far removed from the market. But speaking at a Manhattan conference on high-yield debt last week, Milken suggested that it was time to buy, not sell, junk bonds. Said he: "There is tremendous opportunity out there today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panic in The Junk Pile | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

People were reported carrying guns after widespread looting convulsed the island, which still lacks water, power and telephone service in the wake of Hugo's wrath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pentagon Reports Looting in Hugo's Wake | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

MIAMI--Hurricane Hugo quickened its pace toward the Eastern Seaboard yesterday as residents gathered supplies and made evacuation plans, while violence and looting broke out on the shattered islands in the storm's wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hugo Threatens U.S.; Islands Left Ravaged | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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