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...that might be called The Revenge of the Second Bananas. Bentsen was solid, senatorial and soothingly statesmanlike. Quayle, who often seemed as lost as an actor missing half the pages of his script, struggled to overcome his own Throttlebottom image -- and lost. The one-sided debate did not instantly alter the Electoral College arithmetic favoring George Bush, but it did appear to have kept the race open as the two presidential contenders head toward their final face-off in Los Angeles this week. Wavering voters on the verge of committing to Bush may now pause, reflect and wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How It Plays In Toledo | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...increasingly conservative U.S. Supreme Court restricts civil rights law as some liberals fear, that might also alter MCAD's caseload. If federal laws are struck down, it is possible that more state residents would turn to MCAD for protection under Massachusetts laws...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Case of Too Many Cases? | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

...often suggested, may lie somewhere in the rack and ruin of the middle distance. His claims were modest. He asked only for a hearing -- say, between cleaning up after supper and getting ready for bed, a few moments' attention to a poet speaking as if speech could still alter society and the perception of hours. On his birthday, unbidden, hundreds and perhaps thousands will give him an audience. Nothing has changed for these solitary readers, who have been massing over the years and decades. Some, indeed, may not know that he is gone and that one of his more memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Long Way from St. Louis | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...uninvited program. Most software vaccines take advantage of the fact that computer viruses usually hide themselves in one of a few locations within the machine's control software. A typical vaccine will surround those memory locations with the equivalent of a burglar alarm. If something tries to alter the contents of one of those cells, the vaccine program is supposed to stop everything and alert the operator. But because there are so many different viral strains out there, vaccines are often ineffective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Invasion of the Data Snatchers | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...tense night in the Bush camp as George and some key advisers wait for the call that could alter the course of their campaign. Fundamentalists, the defense lobby, the National Rifle Association, the National Association of Pledgers of Allegiance--the seals of approval of all these groups pale in importance next to the endorsement of our nation's most illustrious and influential media powerhouses--Coke and Pepsi...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Choice of a Pop Generation | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

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