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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casey also believes that the stocks of small natural-resource companies are good for short-term speculation. He has a dim view of the current craze for buying such collectibles as artworks or beer cans. But he makes two exceptions: custom-made knives and antique Greek, Roman and medieval coins. Casey happens to collect both of these himself. He inveighs against investing in U.S. real estate, arguing that the market has already peaked. He advises people to rent, rather than buy, housing. One of Casey's most urgent suggestions: get your money out of the U.S. and into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Selling Gloom and Doom | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...have this crazy family from Georgia which moves into the White House. And the president of the United States used to sell peanuts, and before that he was captain of a nuclear submarine. And he has a redneck brother who owns a gas station and drinks ten sixpacks of beer a day. And he has an 80-year-old mother who used to be a member of the Peace Corps. And his 11-year-old daughter lives in a tree house. And one sister rides a motorcycle and the other-sister is a faith healer. Do you know what that...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Art Buchwald: Portrait of a Sometimes Unfunny Man | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

Sipping a Molson's beer in the Lowell House Senior Common Room while a small audience of 30 students and tutors looked on, Irving criticized 19th century novels for taking too long to get started...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irving Speech | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

...York Islanders in Nietszchean terms. The Islanders, seeking their first National Hockey League Championship ever, led the Philadelphia Flyers by three games to two in their best-of-seven final series. After two periods, final triumph seemed assured: the Islanders were ahead, 4-2, and the beer-soaked corridors reverberated with chants of "We Want...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Iced Nietzsche | 9/30/1980 | See Source »

...anything at first. But I'm kind of stubborn, like him. Finally I said, "Well, I'm coming out there anyway." One of the assistant coaches told me later that that sold him on me. Then I went out and bought a case of beer and drove back to Foley, throwing the empties at every stop sign. I was happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bear's Superstudents: Trials and Triumphs | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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