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...would hope the new president would withdraw. I think it's likely that most times a president intervening will bungle it, as Derek Bok did. I don't think any president of the University will know any more than we do..It's time for the president to bug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/27/1990 | See Source »

...Waste not, want not. Back in the heydey of OPEC, when gasoline lines stretched for miles, everyone got the conservation bug. Between 1977 and 1985, while the number of registered automobiles increased by 20 percent, oil consumption declined by 15 percent. The energy savings directly attributable to the conservation measures of the Carter era amount to more than $150 billion per year. Yet the Reagan administration bowed to pressure from auto manufactures and rolled back fuel economy standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brace for the Storm | 9/26/1990 | See Source »

Just how often can even the fastest rapper describe oral sex or genitalia on a 79-minute album? More often than you would think possible, according to Focus on Family, an evangelical group that made a bluenosed and bug-eyed tabulation of the vulgarities in 2 Live Crew's controversial, hot-selling album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. It's dirty work, but somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Nasty Is Nasty? | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...from Chicago's North Side for three decades, he is impervious to election-year jitters. Even if he lost his seat, he could walk away from the Hill consoled by $1 million in campaign funds he gets to keep. Moreover, he may have been bitten by the statesman's bug. Colleagues say Rostenkowski envisions a grand compromise on the deficit as the "crowning achievement" of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deja Voodoo? Dan Rostenkowski proposes a grand budget compromise | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...first time this season, the Crimson squads fell prey to the injury bug last Saturday at Brown. Unable to perform up to their full potential, the men fell to Dartmouth and Brown by a 79-59-34 margin. The women were slightly more successful, totaling 51 points to place second, ahead of Dartmouth's 30-point total but behind Brown's winning 67-point effort...

Author: By Ray Patricco, | Title: Thinclads Wounded | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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