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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state has repeatedly criticized Exxon for failing to contain the oil in the days after it was spilled. But officials are less eager to admit that the state did almost nothing to make sure that the oil industry was prepared for a major accident. Over the past ten years, the staff of the state's oil- pollution-control management program was reduced from three people to one. Says Paul O'Brien, who ran the program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Stain Will Remain On Alaska | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Little Cubs: Will someone on the Columbia campus finally admit that its football team has had one of the most pathetic histories of any team in the nation? Not including Kansas State, of course...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Testing out the Rushing Theory | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...even I admit that I wouldn't have gone anywhere else--and that's what scares me. For all its faults, Harvard is still Harvard...and we all know it. If you can cope with the egos here, you can do anything...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Cope With the Egos | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...when August 25 rolled around and Rose was banned from the game for life, the former Cincinnati manager still wouldn't admit the truth...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Sounds of Harry Homer Caray | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...acquired parts of the German industrial area of Upper Silesia, Posen and West Prussia, providing it with a corridor to the Baltic Sea. Germany alone would be disarmed, forbidden to maintain more than 100,000 troops or have any major warships, submarines, warplanes or tanks. Germany would have to admit formally to being guilty of aggression and pay all war damages, a sum estimated at more than $100 billion (around $600 billion in today's dollars). Until the Germans accepted these terms, the Allies would continue the strangling naval blockade they imposed in 1915. The Germans signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part 2 Road to War | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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