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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal is that when we go to tournaments, we don't play the host team," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "We're not going to be anybody's cannon-fodder. So maybe now if we can beat Nebraska, that will stop...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Cagers Looking For Respect In Nebraska Tourney Opener | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

...market was going like the Wabash Cannon Ball through 1988 and 1989, Bond's own finances were not. His bid for Irises had been part of a consistent pattern: paying far too much for investments even though they were, as assets, sound. In 1987 he paid more than $700 million for Kerry Packer's TV stations in Australia. In the financial year ending last June, Bond's media firm posted a $34 million loss. Also in 1987, Bond paid more than $1 billion for the U.S. brewery G. Heileman, whose 1989 resale value is about half that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...pictures as defiant as a pair of young West Berliners, standing before a water cannon, ramming a post into the Wall, as inconceivable as hundreds of youths celebrating before the Brandenburg Gate, as simply staggering as a peak-capped East German border guard handing a flower to West German women seated atop the barrier, spread throughout the Western world...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Reflections on the Euphoria | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Sony is only one of the foreign investors rushing to claim a stake in Hollywood. In the past year, Britain's Television South bought MTM Enterprises, Australia's Qintex Group reached an agreement to take over MGM/ UA, and Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti acquired control of Hollywood's struggling Cannon Group, an action-picture mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Foreign Owners From Walkman To Showman | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...from the Alien and Sedition Acts. Passed in 1798, they were enforced in a way that made a crime of any idea, opinion, remark or act a judge disapproved of. One New Jersey man was arrested and fined $100 for saying he did not care if somebody fired a cannon up the President's arse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Few Symbol-Minded Questions | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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