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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympics thinking that winning a gold medal is all there is to life, I'm going to be very disappointed." But well before that there is the possible disappointment of failing to qualify at next month's trials in Buffalo. To avoid that, Salazar must first defeat whatever has been defeating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Salazar's Marathon Ordeal | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...Cambridge Consumer-Owned Telecommunications. Inc., offers subscriber-owned service, a proposal favored by several members of the city council since the defeat of a November referendum allowing the city itself...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Four Companies Compete For City Cable Franchise | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

Churchill had a string of spectacular failures as well as successes. So did Franklin Roosevelt in domestic policy during his struggle to lift America out of the Depression. John Kennedy's first year was one of almost continuous defeat, but fortunately, it was a year also marked by unceasing experiment in diplomacy and military improvement. In the American legend, the discouragements with men and War heaped on Abraham Lincoln in his early years of the Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Be Wary of the Cautious | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Most civil rights pioneers long ago accepted an outcome somewhere between victory and defeat and went home. Home for Carll is an ideological stance; he, his wife and two children live, by his choice, as virtually the only whites in a black development in Jackson. He holds down a plodding job as a traveling salesman of schoolbooks that cosmeticize the '60s and neglect to mention evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Invisible Men | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...participants doing the pointing A coaches poll released this week puts the 5-0 Yale varsity eight first in the East, the squally unbeaten Harvard squad (3-0) third, and Princeton--with only one defeat on its record fifth...

Author: By Marie B. Morkis, | Title: Unbeaten Harvard Lights Face Yale and Princeton | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

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