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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's impatience with pacts and parleys was rooted in his distaste for the balance of terror that arms control helps preserve and fine-tune. Whether he was fantasizing about a perfect space-based defense or the abolition of ballistic missiles, he was implicitly repudiating the system of deterrence that had kept the nuclear peace for 40 years. No wonder Mikhail Gorbachev looked so good. He took gimmicky American proposals, put his own spin on them, made them the basis of progress -- and then bowed to the ensuing applause. Reagan had his own curtain calls too. It was part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Back in Business | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

DION: YO FRANKIE! (Arista). The Wanderer is his own bad self, back with a fine album full of romantic street toughness and hard-edged nostalgia. This Rock-' n'-Roll Hall of Famer has still got one of the greatest voices that ever wopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 12, 1989 | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...credit is fine," says Carol Keyes, a member of the National Coalition for Campus Child Care. "But the proposed tax credit only provides families with $19 per week, and that doesn't buy anything," she adds...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Child Care and Government | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Theoharis adds, "I think that [the longwait] is fine. It gives us a chance to keeptalking to people--to keep harping on the issue...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Complications Delay Final Clubs Complaint | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never had a woman in the administrators' loop. When I first began to meet with them there was this short period of discomfort and then we got our attention focused on the issues and everything was fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson's 'Quiet Diplomacy' | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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