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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urge to inject details led to some surprising provisions. In their final deliberations, the drafters added an item calling for a constitutional amendment to limit the number of consecutive terms served by members of Congress. Other passages hardly qualify as presidential: the Republicans would evict drug dealers from public-housing projects and encourage recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in all schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:Is Bigger Better? | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Managers of the bar, which features live jazz music for over 45 hours each week, said that they had been negotiating lease agreements with their landlady, Mary Burns, since they took over the location in 1983, and that a court decision handed down last month will evict them from 1369 Cambridge Street on August...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Recent Court Decision Will Evict Well-Known Cambridge Jazz Bar | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Lost and Found BIG | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Flores and other officers, some of whom insisted on anonymity for security reasons, said the Sandinistas penetrated an area of about 20 square miles inside Olancho province last week while chasing the U.S.-supported rebels in a two-week offensive to evict the Contras from Nicaragua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nicaraguan Soldiers Leave Border Area | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...witnesses presented letters from Walsh to Patrick J. Sullivan, the owner of the building with the disputed apartments, and from Walsh to the tenant Jill Sullivan was trying to evict...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Sullivans' Principles Debated in Council | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

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