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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorney James Rafferty said the school will file counter-claims and seek damages because the suit is depriving it of potential revenue. The school cannot expand its curriculum while Brooks' suit is under consideration...

Author: By Jonathan E. Gross, | Title: Brattle Resident Files Suit To Close Down Day School | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

Dukakis announced last week that he would not seek reelection in 1990, a move observers say will make it necessary for him to aggressively defend the policies of the last six years. The governor has decided that a tax increase is necessary to preserve his administration's social programs, State House sources...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Defensive Tone Marks New Dukakis Policies | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...execute. As director Annaud says, he and screenwriter Brach only placed their animals in very basic survival situations "in which a bear or a man would respond in the same ways." That is to say, by resorting to their common store of instincts: to fight or flee, to seek food, shelter, sex. The difficulties of capturing all this on film, using actors that are willful, dangerous and, of course, nonverbal, requires awesome patience and artifice, both on location and in postproduction. At the level of technique, The Bear is to other films about nature what Star Wars was to science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of The Wilderness | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

What better month for an Indian politician to seek re-election than November? The harvest and festival seasons have just ended, leaving voters in an ebullient mood, and the weather is tolerable. No wonder, then, that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi last week scheduled national elections for Parliament's lower house late next month, seven weeks earlier than necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA November, Be Kind | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Twice as many men as women said they wanted to pursue a career in business, amounting to a total of 16.5 percent of the class, two percent less than last year. And 5.5 percent of female respondents said they would seek a career in the "helping professions," while 0.7 percent of the men said the same, the survey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

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