Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garbage can. According to the Washington Post, an unidentified collector of campaign memorabilia had gone to Reagan headquarters in Arlington, Va., after the election to seek souvenirs. He was told that everything had been tossed out, but he was welcome to rummage in the trash cans. He filled a box with a batch of papers and last week showed some of them to the Post. They provided ostensible verification of a report by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett in his new book on Reagan that "a mole" had operated in the White House to help Reagan's campaign...
Monge presides over the most successful democracy in Central America (see box). But because his country, which has no army, borders Nicaragua, Monge is feeling vulnerable to the spread of violence. Part of his hope in planning last week's meeting, which would have been the first direct high-level contact between the Reagan Administration and the Salvadoran guerrillas, was that it could lead to a negotiated settlement in Nicaragua as well as El Salvador...
...cigarette industry faces a special problem. For 30 years it has been under attack by various Government agencies over issues of smoking and health. Since 1966, federal law has mandated ever harsher health warnings on cigarette packs and in ads about smoking (see box). Those admonitions, plus increased federal and state taxes, the recession and America's rising health-consciousness, have taken their toll. Consumption was down half a percent last year, dropping from 627 billion cigarettes in 1981 to 624 billion last year. John Maxwell of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Wall Street's leading tobacco-industry analyst...
Harvard, in the past couple of years has also begun to keep an eye on state government University officials have worked with state government leaders, many of whom served as faculty in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. But a couple of box local ressues have given them troubles such as anima' resting at the Medical School, and the toxic that other researchers produce in then work...
...killers. The film's director, Walter Hill, says of Eddie: "This kid is so enormously talented he can get away with anything." This time Eddie ran away with the movie: 48 HRS., for which he was paid $200,000, has tallied an imposing $78 million at the box office...