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Word: deliverance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he has been in power less than six months, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev has already become a more vibrant presence to the 278 million citizens of the U.S.S.R. than his recent aged and often ailing predecessors. Promising a top-to-bottom shakeup of the lethargic state bureaucracy, cracking down on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Vigorous Leader | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

Where are Sting's contagious melodic hooks? The best Police songs--and there are countless best Police songs--stimulate the mind a bit as they ensnare you with danceable rhythms and singalong-able choruses. Most of the Blue Turtle tunes sit on the turntable self-satisfied, making little effort to...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: All Sting and No Bite | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Despite Shultz's statement, that was never a very real hope. Apparently, neither Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal militia then holding the 39 TWA hostages, nor Syrian President Hafez Assad was able to deliver the seven. "They didn't have access to them," said one U.S. official last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Left Behind | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

The public criticized the media's coverage of the episode, but it also watched attentively. Without the benefit of instant ratings, television knew what the public wanted and what it had to deliver. Was it successful? Fifty-seven percent of the sample in a WCVB-TV (Ch. 5) poll said...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

More important than any particular mechanism is for us to establish a pattern of behavior on which other nations will base their expectations. It is important for others to have a high level of expectation that the perpetrators of terrorist acts will be punished. The character of the punishment matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problems with Retaliation % | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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