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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd cheering when George Polsky, Frank Huerta, John Masland and Seth Handy battled and beat their Diplomat opponents in a series of intense and successful matches. Handy toyed with the sounds of Diplomat-ic silence, losing his first two games, and then squeezing out of a tie-breaker to win the last game...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: M. Squash Tops F&M, Penn | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

Having learned the way of the Diplomat, the team then undiplomatically shook the Quakers' record, storming...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: M. Squash Tops F&M, Penn | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inside The Bible Beltway | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose by 6.5%. "The honeymoon for Gorbachev has ended at home," says a Moscow-based Western diplomat. "Gorbachev's been in power too long to blame it all on Brezhnev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The Shaky Fortunes of Gorby Inc. | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others see it as evidence of his strength, indicating that he feels secure enough to delegate considerable responsibility. Either way, notes a Western diplomat, "the power used to be in the hands of one man, but it's loosening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The Shaky Fortunes of Gorby Inc. | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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