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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is the best it can boast. Perhaps its beginner status makes it less polished, but there is something almost confrontational about Barillari. You feel reluctant to buy anything, but guilty if you don't, as four different salespeople watch you all the time...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: No Bookstore Is the Same | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Beijing, where most of the carnage took place, citizens are not yet foolish enough -- or desperate enough -- to buy the government's line. But they are toeing it, as a sullen normality descends on the city. Although most of the tanks are gone, the streets still teem with helmeted soldiers, AK-47s poised at their sides. The handwritten broadsheets that served as a free press have been peeled from walls, but perhaps some cyclists are heartened as they spot one last declaration chalked on the Forbidden City: THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT OPPRESSES THE ENTIRE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY. It is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Deng's Big Lie | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...proceed with the merger in the face of the Paramount attack, Time abandoned its earlier plan for a debt-free, tax-free stock swap with Warner, and instead launched a $70-a-share tender offer for 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares. That would buy Time a controlling interest in its merger partner; the remaining Warner stock will be acquired later in exchange for cash and securities. The deal will cost Time the kind of debt it and Warner had hoped to avoid -- somewhere between $7 billion and $14 billion. Unlike the original Time-Warner arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return To Sender | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until the fuel was widely available, and gas stations would probably not install methanol pumps until large numbers of cars using that fuel were roaming the roads. Moreover, Bush ducked the single most effective device for lowering gasoline usage: a hefty gas tax, which would also serve to reduce the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smell That Fresh Air! | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...Nasty As We Want to Be by 2 Live Crew do not fall into the hands of minors. Since June 8, the chain has been slapping little green stickers reading 18 TO PURCHASE on sexually explicit records and requiring customers to present proof of age before they can buy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Let Me See Some ID | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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