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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before last week, political consultants concluded that negative ads often have more impact than positive ones. The negative ads in many 1986 Senate races were critical failures but ballot-box successes. According to Democratic Pollster Mark Mellman, studies show that people process negative information more thoroughly than positive statements. Media Consultant Robert Squier sees the New Hampshire ads as part of a general trend toward what could be called infomercials. "Any information," he says, "will be voraciously consumed by the voter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Campaigns: Accentuating The Negative | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Marcia Rieke sits on a mound of dirt on a cold mountaintop, nearly two miles up in the clear Arizona sky, watching the sun go down and worrying. A shadow slowly creeps past her, cast by a nearby tan, four-story building that looks like a gigantic bread box. Inside the bread box is the Multiple Mirror Telescope, the world's third most powerful telescope. It looks like no other. There is no glistening dome; it might be a four-story barn. But there are 800 * tons of it, and it turns. The whole structure can pirouette 360 degrees, enormously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: White-Knuckle Astronomy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Moments later, junior Julia Trotman tipped a Nina Simonds point blast past Bowdoin goaltender Erin Miller. Joslin then added a shorthanded goal while Co-Captain Julie Sasner was in the penalty box for tripping...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Icewomen Beat Bowdoin, 9-0 | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

...Jewish homeland is not relevant. Bartfuss, the emotionally anesthetized protagonist, does not even have a proper home. He sleeps in a room apart from a wife he avoids and two daughters he scarcely knows. Bartfuss is some sort of underworld trader who keeps his money hidden in a box that his family cannot find. His business hours evidently are erratic and short, because he spends most of his time gazing at the sea from a Jaffa beach or sitting in cafes drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Call It Sleep THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...then it was time for the Crimson to score another goal in the last minute of play in a period. With Eli Maria Dennis in the penalty box for slashing, Harvard worked the puck to Joslin, who tallied her 13th goal of the season to end the second stanza with a 3-0 Crimson advantage...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Icewomen Take Bulldogs, 4-1 | 2/18/1988 | See Source »

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