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...have no room in our Moscow offices anymore. Since January we have been receiving 500, 600, even 700 letters a day. Our secretaries dump mail sacks right on the floor of the reception area, and our conference rooms are filled with folders of mail. Old-timers remember how only four years ago Ogonyok used to receive no more than 20 letters a day, mostly naive poetry or the memoirs of retired people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Typing Out the Fear | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...expensive. But it's got to be paid. Youcan't just dump it illegally," said Thomas W.Campbell, a spokesperson for McLean Hospital,another Harvard teaching hospital...

Author: By Mark K. Wiedman, | Title: State Seeks Solution For Storage of Waste | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

City-hall workers naturally dubbed their new professorial task force "Fishy" (Allen), "Tweety" (Harris, the bird man) and "Blue Eyes" (Gearheart). Another nickname mattered: an abandoned dump near the oxidation pond was called Mount Trashmore. No one put it all together until Allen probed his students one day. A student "who slept all the time" raised his hand. No problem, the student said. "Just run it ((the wastewater)) around Mount Trashmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...screaming at Jeff to dump the puck," Gilligan said, "and he dumped it into...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Browne's OT Goal Lifts Vermont | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

Then there is the "Dump Quayle" strategy. "If Jerry Ford could dump Nelson Rockefeller," says a Baker friend, "why couldn't Bush dump Quayle?" Bush could, of course, but then there would be the residence problem. With both candidates from Texas, a Bush-Baker ticket might be required by the Constitution to forfeit that state's electoral votes. "And besides that," says Robert Strauss, "folks would probably find the whole thing too cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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