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Word: closers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, outside the comfy studios the war is sneaking ever closer. At first it is not much more than a remote rumor to these civilians in uniform, a telex clattering more and more bad news that the censors will not let them report. But soon there is terrorism in Saigon's streets, a terrorist in Adrian's life, even terror in his heart when a reportorial mission in the field goes awry. Both compassion and panic invade his routines. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, Tin Men) has always been good at wiring comic asides to a delay fuse, but this entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Motormouth In Saigon GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Triple Sect: The closer you are to the basket, the easier it is to score, right...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Cagers Meet the Holy and the Hellish | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

Diederich, meanwhile, sprinted in a different direction. "I felt someone go down, but my eyes were fixed on a wall, topped with broken glass, near the school. The armed men were getting closer. I went over. When I reached a small courtyard, the people who lived there hid me and tended a gash in my hand." The U.S. embassy later sent an armored car to pick him up. "I was lucky I had a place to escape to," said Diederich, a Miami resident who was born in Haiti and is the son of TIME Reporter Bernard Diederich. "Those people took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 14, 1987 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

This season UNH has slipped somewhat, and Harvard's team is a veteran one. If anything, the final score last night should have been closer...

Author: By Kristin Olson, | Title: New Hampshire Wildcats Scratch Icewomen, 10-0 | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Given the closer collaboration between Swiss and U.S. officials, more American criminals are likely to switch to such havens as Luxembourg, Austria, Panama and Hong Kong. Says Richard Stricof, a tax expert with Manhattan's Seidman & Seidman accounting firm: "If I were doing something that I didn't want federal authorities to know about, I would pick a place that was inconspicuous. Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Secrecy: Don't Bank on It | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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