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...Professors should return their book request forms to the Coop earlier--any form "arriving later than six weeks before the start of instruction is late...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Case Histories: Fun and Games With the COI | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

...were few and poorly armed. Coordination among the services was abysmal. Nunn cited the case of one Army officer who, unable to reach the Navy because of incompatible communication systems, had to use his AT&T credit card to phone his office in North Carolina to pass along a request for naval bombardment. In an interview with TIME, Goldwater noted that during the Grenada operation "52 top-secret messages were sent to the operational commander and never got there because one service's radios weren't operative with the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drums Along the Potomac | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Fearing yet another collapse, Canada's six largest banks, which together control 95% of the country's bank assets, have moved to save Mercantile. At the request of the Ottawa government, they have pumped more than $300 million into the ailing bank over the past three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing Failure: Canadian banks in trouble | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Rites for a Barrio | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Black & White lightweight Coach K.C. Dietz says her program works the same way. "We recruit a few people--about three of four--who request information about rowing. Then we recruit on-campus, at registration, This year, we got four eights to come out as a result of our efforts [at Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pedalling Crew to the Freshman | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

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