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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since humans are fallible, it seems reasonable to assume that nuclear deterrence may someday fail. This is not a certainty and if we can continually reduce possibilities, failure is not inevitable in any meaningful time frame...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye jr., | Title: Politics is Harder Than Physics | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Because Arabs fail to try to gain an understanding of the importance of the Holocaust, Shipler writes, "they cannot understand Israel...

Author: By Steve Lichtman, | Title: Middle-Eastern Establishments | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...Record Books: At 2-5, the Crimson has already assured itself of its biggest loss total of the decade and its first non-winning campaign of the decade. If the gridders fail to win another game this year, they would finish the year at 2-8, which would mean the following...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: The Captain and His Two-Way Big Man | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...most distinctive male singing voice between Bing Crosby's and Elvis Presley's. Sinatra's character is a thumb in the public eye, but his songs continue to work a lonely magic. And not so lonely. Kelley notes that Frank, like everyone else, used Sinatra LPs as fail-safe aids to seduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...only weapons currently at hand for controlling the AIDS epidemic: education about the disease beginning as early as the third grade and prevention. Koop's report was educational in itself. It was comprehensive and accurate, and its warnings were expressed in sexually explicit language that readers could not fail to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Toughest Virus of All | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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