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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beating Bush will not be so easy. With only two candidates, the governor will no longer be able to let his competitors fight off each other while he remains above the strife. One on one with Bush, Dukakis will have to hold his own. And with the two running dead even in the polls, Bush will not go down without a fight...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Going Down by Default | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...Without them," Nellen says, "there'd be dead lumps of Wookie on the bottom of the pool...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Wookies of the Year Learn Quickly | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

...crowd soon realized one of the drunks was pretending. In the second quarter, Harvard whipped out its gun, its aim dead accurate...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Traveling in Two Directions | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...economics. By the mid-'70s, big-name acts wanted so much money that it was impossible to squeeze a worthwhile profit out of the "small" 1,500-seat auditorium. Until the theater's closing, Cooper's amateurs still packed 'em in, but on most other evenings, the place was dead and empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amateur Night In New York: Triumph and Terror at the Apollo | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...orders of Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, 75 state troopers armed with nightsticks stormed the building violently evicted the students and injured several. Fortunately, no one was killed. The same cannot be said of the infamous Kent State incident in May of 1970, where four students were shot dead by National Guardsmen while protesting the war in Vietnam...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Times They Are a Changin' | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

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