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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strictly for people who can't afford it," Deutch says...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Commitment Often Ends After Graduation | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Princeton is also undefeated in the Ivies, so the Crimson can't afford to let up like it did against the Engineers...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Icewomen Blank Big Red | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...best express our solidarity with the oppressed employees of the telephone company--is to refuse to pay our phone bills this month. To me, that seems a tempting way to "fight the power," but in the end it's a move that my roommates and I simply cannot afford to make...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...President last week announced that he would veto a bill that would provide Medicaid money to pay for such abortions. The bill put Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound a violent act with the taking of an unborn life" but acknowledged that "to some there might be a contradiction there." Democrats attacked the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in a Contradiction | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Francisco earth-quake is still set for the coming decades. As for the stock market crash--well, the economists don't know. If the real crash ever does come, George Bush may well manage to stay aloof. Most of the rest of us, though, won't be able to afford to cheer...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Fascinated by Quakes and Crashes | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

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