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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with the debate thus far over the bridge is that it has focused attention away from the real problem with the bridge--its aesthetic idiocy. A monstrous construction of over 150 feet in length, 18 feet wide, and 20 feet height--with a large circular 'eye' in the middle--the bridge is, well, ugly. Instead of trying to drum up support for another ideological war on Harvard. Cambridge residents should press Harvard for a tangible gain--sending architect James Stirling back to the drawing board to design us a new bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Can't See the Fogg For the Bridge | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

Instead, the council voted to ask its representatives on the student-faculty Committee on Housing to abstain from voting on the matter for the rest of the year, to enable more campus-wide debate before any changes in the lottery system are made

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Council Debates Rugby Grant, Heckling Policy | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...candidate's relaxed confidence may have good cause. In recent polls he runs well ahead of Shamie and his Democratic rivals, and he has been a well, known figure state-wide since some of his opponents were finishing college...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Richardson Plays Cool in Senate Bid | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...current business bestseller In Search of Excellence hails Hewlett-Packard as one of the best-managed companies in America. In 45 years the firm has grown from a garage in Palo Alto, Calif., to a giant whose $4.7 billion in sales embraces a wide range of high-technology products, which include minicomputers and electronic test and measuring instruments. Hewlett-Packard now ranks 75th on the FORTUNE list of the largest U.S. industrial companies, and its pocket calculators have made HP household initials among scientists and engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Personal: Hewlett-Packard's Personal Computers | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Always. To me it's just reality. To not think about death is like living in your sleep." For the Pretenders, then, as for very few other bands today, music becomes quite literally a matter of life and death, a way, better than any other, of keeping wide awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes from the Deep End | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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