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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worker had pushed the boulder onto a large flat area, he said, adding that "the crew was operating under the plan that the rock would hit and stay there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boulder Kills Seven on Colorado Road | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

However, "the rock proceeded over the edge of the large flat area down through several hundred feet of trees onto the highway below, where it collided with the bus," Hopkins had said earlier in a prepared statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boulder Kills Seven on Colorado Road | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

...patriotic zeal behind it. The project arose from Terra's twofold conviction that American 18th and 19th century art was as good as any in Europe, and that snobbery keeps this from the public, so that Americans do not know their own artistic heritage. The first proposition is flat wrong, granted a few exceptions like Copley, Homer and Eakins; the second is dubious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How To Start a Museum | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...most -- among viewers. Arbitron, which measures the size of local- and cable-television audiences, says most TV ministries have suffered a significant fall in viewership. Concurs Fred Vierra, president of United Cable, the nation's eighth largest operator: "We do not see their audiences growing. They're staying relatively flat." One evangelist cracks, "I was in West Irian on the island of New Guinea, and even some of the Stone Age people are familiar with the PTL scandal. That's how far it has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Money | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...only did the Constitution exclude Indians (Native Americans) "flat out," but that exclusion made it possible for the Indians to be killed and their land taken from them. You are right when you say of the American Indians that their "suffering has merely slowed, not stopped." Some Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Those Ill-Served | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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