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These are the families whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises a dime a gallon; whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling; whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...fact is that Silverado collected $3 million from Ken Good in 1986. Three years later, they couldn't get a dime from him. So they were $3 million better off as a bottom line. These guys at Silverado knew a lot more about Ken Good than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Worried About the Impact on Dad | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...appears in an area of previously unblemished skin. Melanomas are asymmetrically shaped, usually begin as mottled light brown or black blotches that eventually can turn red, white or blue in spots, become crusty and bleed. They grow rapidly, and once they have expanded to about the thickness of a dime, they have probably metastasized and become lethal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skin Cancer: The Dark Side of Worshiping the Sun | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...always restless, "the wild tread of God" often heard and felt. Occasionally the terrain gets cluttered. But Matthiessen is a man who can write his way out of any storm. What an old-timer says of his wood pony applies equally to Matthiessen: He can "turn on a dime and give back nine cents change." On a good day, maybe even eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Tread of God KILLING MISTER WATSON by Peter Matthiessen | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

COWBOY JUNKIES: THE CAUTION HORSES (RCA). The Junkies are still laying down their special blend of Thorazine country -- slow, dreamy and spiritual -- but the novelty's worn dime-thin. Not so fresh as last year's exemplary debut, but the band still has mystique to burn and mystery to spare. Wait till next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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