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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inman's reason: his boss, William Casey, will be out of town, and Inman has to mind the store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...fashion model. In the past, the world had always been a bit too speedy for Reinhart. He survived marital and fiscal disasters by waddling through the door to enlightenment before he was really ready. When last seen, Reinhart was scouring a disco called the Gastrointestinal System for his shady boss in an even darker, cryogenic body-freezing scheme. Now, as the slimmed-down chef on a local TV cooking show, his main concern is whether the sliced mushrooms will brown in their lemon-juice bath. At last he can afford to reflect: "The best defense against any moral outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quixote in the Kitchen | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...Ronald Reagan's senior advisers was asked last week to describe the mood of his boss at a time of adversity. The aide responded initially with pantomime. He put an imaginary hand grenade to his mouth, pulled the invisible pin with his teeth, hurled the grenade upward and said with a smile, "He's going up the hill. He's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rough Waters Ahead | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...conscripted Teamsters to bloody the heads of demonstrators. But the tape confirms for the first time that Nixon knew about the political sabotage campaign conducted by White House Henchman Donald Segretti 18 months before the hotly contested 1972 election, a charge Nixon has repeatedly denied. As Haldeman tells his boss: "This kind of guy can really get out and tear things up." Segretti was imprisoned in 1973 for conspiracy and distributing false campaign material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nixon Encore | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...White House aide, when L.B.J. tried to finesse the costs of his Great Society and the Viet Nam War by refusing to push for higher taxes. The resulting huge increase in the national debt helped set off today's inflation. When Jones was named House budget boss he spent several days on Wall Street listening to its leaders. "Not many of them knew much about Government," he says But an overwhelming number measured the Government's willingness to fight inflation with bugetary restraints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Master of an Arcane Crisis | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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