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And then, just before the midyear elections, Melissa S. Lane '88 and Mary E. Sarotte '88, the two challengers to the incumbents, and several of their supporters turned to a campus wide referendum. While some said the move was supposed to to help resolve the widening rift within the council...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: The Undergraduate Council: Moving Into Smoother Waters | 2/12/1987 | See Source »

At that price, the USX takeover would have been the second most expensive in U.S. history, ranking behind only the $13.2 billion acquisition of Gulf Oil by Standard Oil of California in 1984. But Drexel Burnham Lambert, Icahn's investment bankers, apparently could not raise all the money needed. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waterloo At USX: Carl Icahn meets his match | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

The adult author attempts the difficult task of recalling a thirteen-year-old's confusion, incredulity and shock at the whirlwind of tragedy which buffeted him. Fact and fiction are inextricably mixed. To patch the gaps in his memory, Maspero reimagines the half-mad atmosphere of a 1944 France through...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Tales From a Dubious Wonderland | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

To that is connected a fourth secret of the age: more people are more comfortable with themselves in the 1980s than they have been in a very long time, or than they care to concede. The social revolutions that stormed for the rights of blacks, women and homosexuals, among others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

Was the watchdog watching carefully enough? That was just one of the questions on Wall Street last week as fresh controversy swirled around the Street's takeover titans -- and the agency that oversees them. Widening its probe of illegal insider trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed unsettling new details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat on Wall Street | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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