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Collective effort has enlarged the size of the hole but the basic concept remains the same. A year and a half or so ago the void in question was somewhere in the vicinity of the Mass. Ave, entrance to Harvard Yard. Gradually it moved down towards the Coop, and most recently it has taken up conspicuous residence between Lehman Hall and the Mug n' Muffin, where it occasionally shifts from one side of the street to the other...

Author: By Jonathan J. Doolan, | Title: Fixing A Hole | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

...Israel before resumption of the Geneva talks. That non-decision was taken to mean that before the Lebanese-Israeli agreement was declared null and void, Syria and Lebanon would offer Israel firm guarantees against the infiltration of southern Lebanon by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Pomp and New Circumstances | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...fervoe that surrounds Team U.S.A. has created a void. America's other stars--not to mention all other international personalities and aspects of the Olympics--have been underexposed, thus prevented from fostering widespread enthusiasm about the Olympics as a whole...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: The Media: the True Olympic Loser | 2/15/1984 | See Source »

...missions are scheduled for 1984, including one with a secret Pentagon payload. But Challenger had barely settled into orbit 190 miles above the earth on the tenth shuttle mission when space gremlins struck. A multimillion-dollar communications satellite, one of two carried on board, mysteriously vanished into the void. Still, in spite of the embarrassing loss, NASA hoped to redeem itself with another of its spectaculars. This week, for the first time, astronauts plan to take a true step into space, leaving the safety of the mother ship without so much as a frail wire to prevent them from drifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Flying the Seatless Chair | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...means to solve them. With millions of Americans malnourished. The government stores enough food to give every family two tons of grain and 40 pounds of dairy products. With countless homeless citizens, contractors level old apartment buildings for office and parking spaces. With rural and inner urban regions completely void of health care facilities, a national medical association projected a 13 percent doctor glut for the 1990s...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

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