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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scolds complain that the Government is paralyzed, but bipartisanship means more than giving in to the President. The old maxim remains true: The duty of an opposition is to oppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 16 APRIL 17, 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Randall Adams did not complain when Continental Flight 140 from Houston to Columbus took off 20 minutes behind schedule last Thursday. He was already twelve years late leaving Dallas County, Texas, which he says had become his "hell on earth." In 1976, several weeks after Adams found a job repairing pallets, he was arrested for the slaying of a Dallas policeman. At one point, with only three days to spare, he was saved from execution by a U.S. Supreme Court stay while the Justices considered a legal technicality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recrossing The Thin Blue Line | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...Critics complain that the EPA has no way to measure the combined impact of ingesting many different pesticides. "I may have Alar on my apples, lead arsenate on my grapefruit, captan on my vegetables," says Jay Feldman, national coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides. "Alone, each of them may constitute a negligible risk. But when you add them up, the total toxic burden is too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on The Farm | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...sets standards for water safety, but has been slow to formulate limits. So far, maximum levels have been decided for some 30 contaminants, less than half the number ordered by Congress. Moreover, critics complain that there is no monitoring of water in the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Pipeline | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...week the President was at pains to counter critics who complain that too much time has already been wasted in this new Administration. Despite Bush's extensive experience in government and his campaign boast that he was "ready on day one to be a great President," hundreds of key appointive posts remain unfilled and crucial foreign policy decisions are on hold pending completion of some 30 "reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rude Awakening | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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