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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live elsewhere. J. Aron Allen, who now lives in Minnesota, would not be a correct response to the question as he was born in the South. I think The Crimson should set the record straight and do a more thorough job of checking its facts in the future. Trevor W Carlton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hockey | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...meeting of the City Council last night, members voted to purchase the Lee B. Macht Community Health Center's building, which Cambridge currently leases. City Manager Robert W. Healy said the move, although expensive at first, would help reduce Cambridge Hospital's $6.8 million deficit...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City Adopts $6.3M Loan to Buy Clinic | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...other business, Councillor Thomas W. Danehy called for a special executive session "to discuss the character and behavior" of Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers. Danehy was advised by the city solicitor, however, that such a session could only be requested after notifying the subject of the inquiry 48 hours in advance...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City Adopts $6.3M Loan to Buy Clinic | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...cost is huge. A 1985 study estimates that corporations bought 12 percent of the alcohol sold at retail in that year. The cost to the government of deducting all those martinis was approximately $5 billion. Compare that to the $5.6 billion that former President Ronald W. Reagan proposed for child nutrition and food programs in 1986, and you get a sense of the magnitude of the waste and unfairness in the T and E deduction...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Wall Street's Food Stamps | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...smoke clears. Single-handed, Rubitsky, 25, has killed or wounded 500 to 600 of the enemy. After examining the scene, company commander J.M. Stehling recommends Rubitsky for the Congressional Medal of Honor. Stehling's commander, Lieut. Colonel Herbert Smith, approves and relays the word to his superior, Colonel John W. Mott. "You mean a Jew for the Congressional Medal of Honor?" Mott replies. According to Smith's later affidavit, Mott "just laughed and walked away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: An Overdue Honor | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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