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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cher decides to stick with marrying Johnny, and to resolve her guilt she goes to confessional. "Pray for me, father, for I have sinned," she tells the priest, adding as casually as she might recite a shopping list that she has twice taken the Lord's name in vain, slept...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Cher Strikes Again | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Kremlin insisted it would not back away from its ambitious plan to quintuple nuclear power output by the year 2000. But officials underestimated the fears created by the accident. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Party youth newspaper, disclosed last week that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Pulling the Plug On a Nuke | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Born in the Arab village of Al-Joura, Sheik Yasin has been paralyzed below the neck since age 15 as the result of an athletic accident. He resides with his wife and eleven children in a one-story house in Gaza City. Family members assist him in dressing and eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam's Voice in Gaza | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

A blue-ribbon committee of eight experts commissioned by NASA to review the agency's safety procedures has warned that the "concern for safety that peaked after the Challenger accident appears to be waning." The investigators stated that when NASA rated its program managers, safety was "conspicuous by its absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Schedule over Safety | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Shuttle contractors have an incentive to emphasize schedule over safety, according to one Rockwell engineer, because they are paid bonuses on an increasing scale according to "how quickly a job is completed. Thus, managers pressure their employees even when work is on schedule." All the shortcuts in safety and security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Schedule over Safety | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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