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...increase would be only half of that permitted by the joint budget resolution Congress approved in May. However the bill, if approved by the Senate, sets spending at a level about $6.6 billion higher than the Administration's budget request and may face veto by President Reagan...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: House Will Vote Tomorrow on Financial Aid | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...knocked off Request Number One along with a Core requirement by signing up for "Historical Studies A: Modern Science and Modern Societies" in the spring of my freshman year...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Graduation and Glass Flowers | 7/31/1987 | See Source »

...then an Army photographer stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers to model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring the Mojave Desert with the young beauty and teaching her some modeling techniques. Conover returned late from his leave and was shipped out to the Philippines. The film, sent to a friend to be developed, was lost, except for ten photos that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 27, 1987 | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Some Hits, Some Runs, One Error | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...teams" to Los Angeles-area schools to tout the advantages of summer jobs at the giant amusement park. The teams have plenty to offer: wages of $4.25 an hour or more, well above the $3.35 minimum wage; free entry to the park during non-working hours; the right to request or occasionally refuse specific shifts. And any employee who refers another gets to enter a monthly raffle for a free TV set. Even so, as of last week 200 of Disneyland's 2,000 or so summer jobs were still unfilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind The Help-Wanted Signs | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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