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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urging divestment from the Soviet Union is fair play, you may say, placing South, Africa and la belle Russe on your ethical scale and coming up with something known in the international pundit biz as "moral equivalence...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Cheap Thrills | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

Other racquet sports don't fair so well in Cambridge and Flexer, the only noted Crimson badminton player, is pretty much...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: Flexer Takes C Levels at Easterns; Badminton Star Shoots for Olympics | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

Ralph: Let's get back to the comfort zone, my beloved. Would it be fair to say that women, the market for these books, are interested in more emotion, conversation, involvement, and that men are remote, coldhearted brutes who slump in the easy chair each night and ignore the little woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Getting a Headlock on Wedlock | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...House also tried to outtough the Senate by lowering the 1986 deficit ceiling to $161 billion and projecting a zero- deficit target by the end of the decade. Congress could not "put off the political pain" of budget cuts, said Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, adding, "We wanted a fair deficit-reduction proposal. The Senate wanted an incumbent protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalemate: A budget standoff in Congress | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...practices his English by studying videotapes of President Reagan's speeches. The Administration had hoped it could persuade Doe, who seized power five years ago, to emulate the U.S. in other ways as well. Officials in Washington threatened to withhold U.S. aid if he did not hold free and fair elections. Liberia, founded 138 years ago by freed U.S. slaves, receives some $85 million a year from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: A Few Irregularities | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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