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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was no point when any of us felt we were in trouble," said Bamford, adding that the game was "a real confidence builder" coming after two easy victories over weak teams: Maine and Holy Crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Rugby | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...farmers in simple and earthy language that sometimes stretched reality. In 1902 the Seven Drawer Drop Head Minnesota Sewing Machine was described as "the highest of high grade in everything." Couches and sofa beds were the "greatest values the world has ever seen." Dr. Rowland's System Builder and Lung Restorer was described as the "greatest vegetable medicine of the age for the thousand ailments common to the masses." Some copy was thorough to a fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

This is the city builder's dream turned nightmare. It is the supercity, the megalopolis, infected by a kind of social cancer that is metastasizing out of control. Its afflictions-a mixture of overcrowding, poverty, pollution and corruption-are a warning to all the other great cities, particularly those in the Third World (see following story), but to New York or Los Angeles as well, that what is happening in Mexico City threatens them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pround Capital's Distress | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

After the last semifinal race Saturday Doug Domokos, the Wheelie King, came show boating onto the track and bet track builder John Savitski $500 he could ride around it on one wheel. He did it but it was an awful lot like watching Meadow-lark Lemmon run around with a waterbucket full of confetti...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Letting the Good Times Roll | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...council took a step toward a more tranquil course with the election of a new General Secretary: Emilio Castro, 57, a Methodist minister from Uruguay. Dutch Ecumenist Willem Visser 't Hooft, 83, the organization's first chief officer, said that Castro "is more of a bridge builder between those who want to emphasize the role of the church in the world and those who favor the evangelical approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Bridge Builder Takes Charge | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

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