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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reducing injuries: Officials will now be able to blow the ball dead if a player simulates being down. Defensive players can't continuously contact opponents above the shoulders...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Henikoff to Represent U.S. in Israel | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

Like all those that preceded it, the final budget that President Reagan will unveil this week asks Congress for more spending than revenue. Reagan will nevertheless hail it as a blow against government profligacy, and in the looking-glass world of federal budgetmaking, he will have a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blame Game Begins | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...cache of arms that included the ultimate boom box: a portable radio packed with a plastic explosive so cleverly concealed that the radio still worked. The wire detonator was fashioned to look under X rays like the radio's antenna. Israelis say the group had planned to blow up an Iberia Airlines flight carrying tourists to Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diabolically Well-Planned: Pan Am's Flight 103 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...think we should blow out of here to Turkey. I'm going to ask for the vectors to Ankara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Journey into Misery | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

WORLD: How nature dealt his land a brutal blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page December 19, 1988 Vol. 132 No. 5 | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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