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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than cutting down on drinking overall, some officials say, banning kegs encourages students to switch to hard liquor. And stringent restrictions often encourage students to do their drinking alone or in small groups, they...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: A Crackdown on Drinking? | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

Just substitute "provinces" for "houses" and "Paris" for "University Hall" in the first statement, then switch "Harvard" and "Deans" to "France" and "Bourbon kings" in the second...

Author: By Zachary M. Schrag, | Title: The Old Regime and Randomization | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...switch is the most complete undertaken by a Communist Party in Eastern Europe. Not even in Poland, where a Solidarity-led coalition has been governing for nearly two months, have Communists subjected themselves to so radical a purge of their political philosophy. In Hungary it marks the end of the party-state, the Marxist concept of a fused identity that still underpins governments in Beijing, Havana and Bucharest. The party will even examine ways of divesting itself of property acquired during the 40 years in which it and the state were virtually indistinguishable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Now You See It? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Many alcohol companies maintain that the purpose of their advertising is simply to encourage people who already drink to switch brands. But Kilbourne said that the approaches used by advertisers are clearly designed to appeal to new users...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Links Ads and Drinking | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

...gave Mac one final chance. "Sorry.........," he began to report, but I flipped the switch and repowered just to torture...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Tech Beyond the QRR | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

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