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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflated salaries at the Lantana- . based National Enquirer. (Starting pay for a reporter: $50,000 a year, with no experience required, except an apparent aptitude for spying on the celebrity species.) The Fleet Streeters began arriving in droves during the 1970s, enough of them to field cricket games, fill dart rooms and prompt some local eateries to include bangers and mash on their menus. Their presence in turn encouraged other tabloids to set up shop nearby -- the Globe, the National Examiner, the Sun and the Weekly World News (son of Enquirer, to the irreverent) -- transforming Lantana and its environs into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann said that Levenson was chosen to fill the List chair because his work involving Jewish and Christian thought is among the most respected in the world...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Div. School Fills List Chair | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

EVER since the ivy began to grow on Wrigley's walls 73 years ago, the relationship between Chicago and its Cubs has been a part of that baseball tradition. The purists ask: why would fans be so fascinated by a perennial loser that they would fill up Wrigley on so many summer afternoons? Is it the fact that the Cubs always lose that draws in the crowd...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: "No, I Meant Bud Light" | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...former Pennsylvania governor was nominatedin July to fill the position by President Reaganafter Meese announced he would vacate the postnext month

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Thornburgh to Be Confirmed Before Convention, Aides Say | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...occurred to him that the way to a bear's heart was not through the barrel of a gun but through its stomach. So he concocted a recipe of sugar- beet pulp and set out feed troughs in the forests. Immediately the bears began to spare the trees and fill their bellies with Flowers' feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Sticking Your Neck Out | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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