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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's in a name? Apparently not much, if you ask officials at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority who recently changed the name of the Kendall Square subway station to Cambridge Center/MIT without asking anyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Bitties | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...Philippines for fiscal 1986 from $225 million to $275 million. Much of the funding will come out of a five-year, $900 million package agreed to by Washington in 1983 in exchange for the maintenance of two vital U.S. installations in the Philippines, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. That commitment complicates Washington's difficulties in weighing its reservations about the Marcos regime against its worries about the insurgency. "I think the Americans have made up their minds that the incumbent government may have spent its moral force," says Marcos' Labor Minister Blas Ople, "but at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Alive But Far From Well | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...foggy lowlands, wearing their bright costumes, they made a visual feast. Now and again you would catch sight of a peach-clad boy on an Appaloosa cutting through the Chinese tallow trees, or a scarlet lad standing on his saddle, dancing on a bay. Five young women gotten up as golden harlots were included in the tableau as an easy taunting symbol for the youths: do not touch, even if you are not yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...this league be saved? "I don't know," says Tampa Bay Bandits Owner John Bassett. "It's like being in a canoe and rowing like hell against a wind and tide moving 200 m.p.h. You have to wonder." That from a man whose team has enjoyed good attendance by U.S.F.L. standards, an average of 36,900 spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Flutie's Wing, and a Prayer | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Madonna - or Madonna Louise Ciccone, as her birth certificate reads in Bay City, Mich. - has an action-packed body, always prominently on display, and doleful, knowing eyes that seem to encourage every male fantasy of lust with no limits. "Baby Dietrich!" exclaimed Glamour Photographer Francesco Scavullo as he shot a fashion layout of the abrasively photogenic young (24) woman. If she could get her voice around a song the way she moves her shape for the camera, she would be pure nitro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: These Big Girls Don't Cry | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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