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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dazed, I immediately fell four beats behind the rest of the group. My main problem was that whenever Satan changed leg motions--from right kick/searing pain to left kick/searing pain, for example--my arms would drop to my sides...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Low-Impact, High Pain | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...second set, however, Mueller quickly fell behind, 3-1, and seemed unable to muster the drive to fight back. His play became dispirited and mechanical, and he actually took to lying down between points, earning quizzical glances from Zimmerman...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netmen Dominate at Harvard Invitational | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

When he reached the press room, Wesbecker shot himself with the pistol and fell face down in a pool of blood. Survivors counting bodies found seven dead and 13 wounded, five critically -- the biggest toll by a mass killer since another nut with an AK-47 sprayed a Stockton, Calif., schoolyard and killed five children last January. Investigators said Wesbecker, a former pressman, had harbored a grudge against his ex-employers since going on total disability for mental illness. Said Joe White, a Standard-Gravure employee: "This guy's been talking about this for a year. He's paranoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kentucky: Another AK-47 Massacre | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...surface when Canada's Campeau Corp. said it might default on its debt, which is in part composed of junk bonds. That disclosure sparked the market's worst drubbing since the Crash of 1987, as traders rushed to dump their holdings. During the week, junk-bond issues fell in price by $10 to as much as $130 for each $1,000 in face value. The rout left Wall Streeters wondering whether the securities that had fueled the decade's wave of takeovers and buyouts might be headed for a long-term crisis of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panic in The Junk Pile | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...management-led buyout. But selling Bloomie's will not be enough. Campeau's firm conceded last week that it may default on $1.27 billion in fourth-quarter debt payments. The disclosure sent prices of Allied junk bonds plunging 20% in value in just one day, while Federated's fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Shrinks Back | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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