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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D-Ill.) got fed up with the Senate, with President Carter, with politics in general and decided not to run for re-election, he probably did not realize the Republicans would win Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IIIinois | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...measure passes, it will indicate either that Massachusetts voters are fed up with a regressive tax structure or fed up with taxes in general--more likely the latter. Had Boston Mayor Kevin White vociferously opposed the measure (he has said almost nothing), he could have been forced into a double take, a la Jerry Brown...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Proposition 2 1/2 And All That... | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Econometric models are a combination of economics, mathematics and statistics. Model builders usually set up several hundred mathematical equations that represent the variables in any economy. After these are fed into a computer, the model can provide a picture of how the economy might react to a change in one or more important factors. Economists can predict, for example, how a severe drought in the Middle West might affect not only food prices but also consumer purchases of everything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Another Big U.S. Harvest | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

Quincy picked up another pair of points in the start of the third quarter when a botched snap to the Currier punter resulted in a safety. Moments later, the rich got richer as Hatamiya fed tight end Dave Ramsey for a 35-yard T.D. The extra point was good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Quincy Triumph | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

...written and has had set to music for a $75 fee he cannot really afford. When Melvin insists on singing Santa's Souped-Up Sleigh to Hughes, the thing turns out to be as awful as the title. A little later Dummar's wife Lynda, fed up with the futility of her husband's vague schemes, takes their child and leaves him to find work as a go-go dancer in a topless joint. Outraged, Melvin turns up at the place one evening and commences to make a terrible scene just before Lynda sheds her top. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desert Dream | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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