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Word: showings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Across the state, students have been rallying this fall, fists clenched defiantly in the air to show their opposition to the ballot initiative's sweeping tax cuts. Spurring them on has been an array of college administrators concerned that the cuts might cost them as much as 20 percent of their already shrunken annual budgets...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: A Threat To Education? | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...even if students are sincere, Carr suggests that many of them may not have all the facts at their disposal. Carr says he bases that assessment on an experience he had last spring when he invited UMass/Amherst activists to call him during a radio show he was hosting on WREB in Holyoke...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: A Threat To Education? | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...have a generation of abused children, by women who have thought that a third-rate day care center was just as good as a first-rate home." Not only did this statement show Silber's ignorance of the composition of the workforce and the financial necessity that forces many women to work, it is indicative of Silber's cavalier and offensive attitude toward women's concerns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson's Endorsements: William F. Weld for Governor | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...Epsilon (TZE), the Art and Music Society at Wellesley College, allegedly printed the list on the back of each of her organization's invitations, which were distributed last week. Students said the list of "Top 10 names for a unified Germany" was apparently taken verbatim from the late night show that David Letterman hosts...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Wellesley Organization Offends Students There | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...criticism has not reached the fever pitch of the 1970s, when Big Oil's "obscene" profits inspired a wave of legislative controls. The oil companies contend that they have heeded President Bush's admonition to show restraint at the gas pump. In fact, while oil prices at the end of last week stood at about $33 per bbl., or 65% higher than they were just before Iraq invaded Kuwait, average U.S. gasoline prices were only 31% higher, or $1.38 per gal. for unleaded regular. Said Holly Hutchins, a spokesman for Shell Oil: "We gave up a considerable amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: We Gave at the Pump | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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