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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sealing them inside oil drums. There is also occasion for a couple of interesting minor subplots which end in a pair of murders. All the arms stowed away, Shannon and company--a small international band of warriors-for-pay bound by shared danger, shared skill, and shared thirst for beer--set sail aboard a trawler for Zangaro. They land late at night, eliminate a sentry or two, and then storm a garrison in a violent display of pyrotechnics. Shortly afterwards, justice triumphs--to say more would give the ending away, and probably reintroduce this question of politics...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An Honest Cause | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...noise of chain saws cutting fishing holes. That's how it is on Sunday. Fishermen arrive in force, some driving out onto the ice in pickup trucks to set up the shanties they use for protection, others pulling sledges loaded with equipment and six-packs of beer, still others zinging along in snowmobiles. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark, a moderate offshore wind is blowing out of the southeast. North toward Canada, the ice stretches as far as the eye can see, an unbroken white expanse that merges with the gray horizon of snow-laden clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: Rescue from an Icy Island | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Reagan uses his frown and his smile at the same time. He is at once affable and concerned, hopeful and worried. He leans forward on his elbows, cuts the air with long fingers. No coffee, no cigarettes, no low-calorie root beer help him through the meeting. He is such a collection of contradictions. He is Hollywood and the new politics; but there he is, talking about the economics that was taught around the turn of the century: business slumps were what happened when Government began taking too much of the people's money in taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Mingling of Old and New | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Citing Harvard's unwillingness to dramatically increase its in-lieu-of-tax-payments to the city, the Cambridge City Council last night went on record in opposition to a Graduate School of Design (GSD) request for a beer and wine license...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Councilors Oppose GSD Wine License | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

...vote is only a recommendation, and the city's license commission, which will consider the application later this month, does not have to follow the advice. Edith Groden, manager of buildings and services for the GSD, said last night the school did not intend at the moment to sell beer and wine during...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Councilors Oppose GSD Wine License | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

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