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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter cannot proclaim, as Stephen Foster once did, that Bardstown is My Old Kentucky Home. But after his warm and noisy welcome there last week, the President might well consider the small (pop. 7,000) town in Kentucky's bourbon and coal country a refreshing spiritual haven where Washington's incessant pressures can be, if only fleetingly, forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Bourbon and Coal Country | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...social and intellectual get-togethers on the level of the undergraduate house system," explains Lee Smolin, a graduate student in Physics and a GSC member. GSC members will look for a center on campus this summer, and hope to arrange GSAS intramural sports next year as another attempt to foster community spirit...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Perils of the Perpetual Scholar | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...Government has never spelled out just how it wants to break up IBM to foster competition. Any "relief that the court eventually may grant must be based on up-to-date information. So last January-ironically on the tenth anniversary of the case-the Government made yet another discovery request for current information and IBM's plans for the future. IBM is resisting; it argues that this third round of discovery would bare its trade secrets, and further delay the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Case of the Century | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...neighborhoods, placing an unfair burden on the black and integrated neighborhoods. Adding to the pain was the board's decision to transfer the nationally acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School, which draws the best students from all over the district, to another building and sell the old Foster School building, which for more than 60 years had been the focal point of black community activity. The N.A.A.C.P. is preparing a suit to keep Foster open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Losers Than Winners | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Whom did the San Francisco Giants get in return for George Foster...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: How Much Do You Really Know About Baseball? | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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