Word: covered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxiously watched North Carolina case, the high bench unanimously reaffirmed a 13-year-old precedent prohibiting racial discrimination in making and enforcing private contracts. But by a vote of 5 to 4 -- with all Reagan appointees in the majority -- the Justices refused to extend the ruling to cover racial harassment in the workplace. Just three days earlier, in a case involving Birmingham fire fighters, the same five significantly lowered the barriers protecting court-approved affirmative- action programs from challenges by white workers...
...began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from cloisters to cover that one. Once, a U.S. Secretary of State breezily invoked the name of Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder in gauging the odds on a successful summit...
...COVER: Flinty dreamer, soulful sportsman, actor Kevin Costner is the man of the movie moment...
...COVER: Defiance rocks the Communist world. China resists while Moscow and Warsaw struggle to reform...
...Cover: Photograph from ABC News