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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album could conceivably outsell Springsteen's classic Born in the U.S.A., which has sold about 20 million copies, but may not catch Michael Jackson's Thriller (35 million copies). Even so, the price of the Springsteen package is more than three times what Thriller costs (about $8), and thus the Boss's live recordings could easily generate more revenue than any other product in music history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music a Record Born to Run | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...asked me to, I'd ask him if he had all his marbles." Does he feel he is paying for the "sins" of the U.S. ? "Amen. Amen." Surprisingly, many of the Nicaraguans who lingered outside the courtroom seemed sympathetic toward the hapless American. Said one ; schoolteacher, who waited to catch a glimpse of Hasenfus and his wife Sally: "This is not their place. They should go home." The message, if not the tone, was one that the Sandinista leaders could appreciate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prepping for a Covert Overt War | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...finale pitted Currier against Eliot/Lowell. The action got off to a fast start as Currier quarterback Danny Sullivan connected with wide reciever Woody McMillan on a 40-yard pass, only to have McMillan fumble to Eliot/Lowell after the catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Locomotive | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...make ever more densely packed memory chips. Its experimental, 4 million-bit chip contains components smaller than one micron, or .000039 of an inch. Now that the company has created a superchip, the tougher task will be to manufacture them by the millions before the wily Japanese can catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Crunch From Foreign Chips | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...summit. Would confining SDI to laboratory research for ten years really kill all prospects of eventually deploying the defense shield? Reagan is on record that it would. Not all experts agree, but at the very least the ten-year proposal would give the Soviets more of a chance to catch up with U.S. technology. Are both sides absolutely clear on just what it was that they almost agreed to in Iceland -- specifically, would the near-deal on strategic weapons have eliminated only ballistic missiles or bombers and cruise missiles too? In either case, should the deal be revived, how would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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