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Ronald Reagan would create a new regional power base through a "North American accord." He would stop "grinding out printing-press money." There is in his speeches only the foggiest suggestion of how he would persuade and arbitrate the conflicting interests in both tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Updating the Book of Promises | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

Furthermore, the best minds reasoned, the movement was doomed by an inexorable biological imperative. Populated by lesbians and unattractive shriekers who would never get husbands anyway, the radical feminists would never reproduce and the movement wither away and die of its own accord...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: The Women's Boom | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

...dare a country that cannot find in its male-chauvinist little heart to accord women equal rights expect them to register for the draft? ERA, first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1980 | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...import engines and other components from Japan. Beginning in 1983, the firm will turn out 10,000 Ohio-built cars a month, roughly a third of its 1979 U.S. sales. The models: probably the two-door, hatchbacked Civic, a compact that lists for $4,049, or the fancier Accord, which costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Made-in-America Japanese Car | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...Vladivostok accord, which was negotiated by President Ford and Kissinger and is embodied in the final SALT II treaty, sets equal ceilings of 2,400 for total strategic nuclear launchers and 1,320 for launchers with multiple warheads (MIRVs). Those ceilings are too high for the liking of many arms-control enthusiasts and U.S. defense planners as well, for they permit the Soviets to continue their 17-year-old missile buildup, which in turn is forcing the U.S. into expensive countermeasures. But the Carter Administration succeeded in negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happens if SALT Dies | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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