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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority opinion questions the appropriateness of such a referendum by suggesting that it somehow undermines the concept of representative democracy. Far from it, the referendum represents participatory democracy at its best...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Dissent | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...game, selling for around $80, offers more technical razzle-dazzle than competitive challenge. Beating the TV players is not hard, because they usually delay offering a solution in order to build up the pot. But the interactive concept may catch on. Youngsters last season could blow away TV villains in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, and Mattel is developing six more interactive TV products. Guess the culprit on Murder, She Wrote, perhaps? Divine Alf's gag lines in advance? Nah -- too easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Playing Along | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...purpose of music is to quiet and pacify the mind, to make it susceptible to divine influences," Cage says. "The Orient and the concept of chance gives us a mind free of likes and dislikes...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Stop Making Sense | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...most egregious concept in the entire entitlement package, to me, is the idea that people like Peter Peterson, to take a specific example, should be getting three to five times what I've put into Social Security, plus interest, plus my company contribution, plus interest, and that I should be receiving a lot of it tax free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Peter Peterson: Get the Rich Off the Dole | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...therefore opposed to the whole concept of entitlements, because entitlements mean that you have a right to something, whereas you would prefer to have people come to the back door for handouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: with Peter Peterson: Get the Rich Off the Dole | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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