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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton, which had executed its precision passing game almost flawlessly in the first half, was unable to pull any closer than nine points the remainder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Succumbs in NCAA | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

Readers took a more hard-line approach on domestic law-and-order issues such as gun control (most opposed it) and the castration of convicted rapists (most favored it). Yet when the lawbreaking gets closer to home, a more lenient attitude emerges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

With press and public interest in Hart intensifying, his policies and leadership style will come under closer examination. He portrays himself as the candidate unencumbered by dogma, with pragmatic ideas not easily pigeonholed. Claiming to speak for "a new generation of leadership," Hart says the contest between himself and Mondale is a choice "between our party's past and its future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Really a Race: Colorado Senator Gary Hart | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...Closer to home. Massachusetts Attorney General Michael Connolly has tentatively proposed a bill which would actually prohibit TV stations from projecting voting results until the poll have closed...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Second Guessing | 3/7/1984 | See Source »

...miles of citizen mourners, half the world closes ranks behind another mystery. Who is this Chernenko, Brezhnev's former water boy turned master of the house? After Iowa, who is Mondale? Walter, we thought we knew you, but now we'd better look a bit closer at him who may become the leader of the other half of the world. Which leaves us with Sarajevo, the least important place on our current events map. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Should We Lead With? | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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