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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Madison, who did so much to write into our Government its elaborate system of checks and balances, would have managed a smile. "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," he wrote in 1788. "In framing a Government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the Government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Checking the Balances | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Notes Leonard Weil, president of California's Mitsui Manufacturers Bank: ($1.7 billion): "Despite all the dark suits worn by its leaders, banking is a very dynamic industry." Bankers have rolled out dozens of new services ranging from discount-catalog shopping to home-equity accounts that allow consumers to write checks based on the value of their house or condominium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking Takes a Beating | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

This partisanship, because it is so blatant and continuous, is acceptable and almost entertaining. "Congress proved to be as obtuse about the nation's ghettos and their attendant problems as it was about the mess in Vietnam," they write (page 120). "Never before in time of war (declared or not) had so many citizens freely stood up to say to their government. "No, Stop!'" (page...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: The Ghosts of Protests Past... | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

Despite the impotence of the SDS within the antiwar movement. I received most of the press coverage. In 1967, SDS National Secretary Greg Calvert talked with The New York Times: his widely-read "fire-eating rhetoric," write Zaroulis and Sullivan, made "more difficult the task of all the many groups working to end the war in Vietnam...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: The Ghosts of Protests Past... | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

...These are the four months that many people who write honors theses need in work on computers," Deal said, added he will "strongly discourage graduate students from joining" the December to March class, for which 10 students have already registered...

Author: By Michael E. Joachim, | Title: Thesis Writers will Receive Reduced Rate Computer Time | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

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