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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transatlantic range war has got out of hand, but so far no one is budging on the beef issue. The E.C. insists that no compromise is possible unless the U.S. accepts the hormone ban. And from the St. Paul stockyards to the vast feedlots of the Southwest, them's fightin' words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Beef over Hormones? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

According to the student who was punished forbreaking the window, he and his three companionshurled the oranges with a slingshot from the NorthHouse breezeway following a drunken snowball fightin the Quad...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Senior Punished for Racial Slur | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...know ever since Mayor Flynn started talkin' about finin' the players for fightin', it just ain't been the same out there...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: Where's the Mayor When Ya Need Him? | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

...remember that huge fight in '65," Pauly asked Balcony Section 26. "It lasted after the game was over. Talk about action. Everybody was fightin' in the street, and on the bus, and of course over at McFinney's. Finally broke it up, since it was stopping traffic...

Author: By Brendan Barnicle, | Title: Where's the Mayor When Ya Need Him? | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

...other. The latest salvos in the presidential campaign? No, just samples of the recent invective between James Miller, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and the man he replaced, Commissioner Michael Pertschuk. A staunch consumer advocate whose seven-year term at the FTC expired last week, Pertschuk left office fightin', feudin' and fumin'. He accused Miller, a Reagan appointee, of deliberately sidetracking the FTC's mission to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices. "While they have fiddled," complained Pertschuk in a 240-page critique of the Reagan FTC that he submitted to Congress prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regulators: Fightin', Feudin' and Fumin' | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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