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...Reagan Administration has tangled the nation's food stamp program in so much red tape that it cannot fully help those it was designed to serve, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study released yesterday...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Harvard Study: Complex Regulations Keep Food Stamps From the Needy | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

Dershowitz played the tape at a luncheon for Gregory and Isai Goldstein, two Jews from the Georgian republic who were recently allowed to leave the Soviet Union after waiting 15 years for exit visas...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Shcharansky Calls on Students, Profs To Press Divestment Against USSR | 5/21/1986 | See Source »

Often the boss himself will grab the limelight and ham it up. Barry Ross, 43, owner of Houston's Superior Waterbeds, was watching a disk jockey tape a spot for his firm seven years ago when he got frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a Gag From Our Sponsor | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed (after 29 years) supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: "When we reached zilch and zillionaire, it was like having the finishing tape in sight in a marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...Government had a star witness, Jesus Cruz, a Mexican, and it relied heavily upon his 23 days of testimony. An admitted smuggler of farm workers, Cruz was paid $21,000, in part to infiltrate church meetings and obtain evidence against the Sanctuary workers with a hidden tape recorder. To make the arrests easier, Cruz even asked his Bible-study partners for their addresses, on the pretext of sending them Christmas cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Defeat for Sanctuary | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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