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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accompanied by an equally disturbing increase in conventional strength and the ability to project power around the world. It has added ground forces and modernized its armored units in Eastern Europe. The Soviet navy has evolved from little more than a coastal patrol force to a bluewater, 300-vessel fleet that could threaten the industrialized democracies' sea lines of communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: One Quota That Was Overfulfilled | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

Challenger the next ship in the fleet, is being readied at Cape Canaveral to take the next three flights, beginning with flight six. Jan. 24 James A. Abrahamson, NASA's associate administrator for space flight said the space walk scrubbed on Monday because of malfunctioning space suits may be take then "if we are certain we understand exactly what wheat wrong and have corrected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Space Shuttle Concludes Its 'Fantastic Voyage' | 11/17/1982 | See Source »

...burden of the broken dreams, and the family, racked economically from the outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only writer around who can get a good, funny love song out of a date where the lovers eat fried chicken from Bob's Big Boy and wipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Against the American Grain | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...first man-o'-war of England's fledgling Royal Navy and a special source of pride to Henry VIII, founding genius of that noble institution. In 1509, Bluff King Hal named the 130-ft., 700-ton, four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of his royal fleet, Mary Rose, after his favorite sister. But on July 19, 1545, the willful monarch looked on appalled at Southsea Castle, near the historic naval town of Portsmouth, as the top-heavy Mary Rose capsized and sank in 40 ft. of water while repelling the attack of a French armada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raising a Tudor Rose | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...secondary will be severely tested by Princeton's fleet receivers. Kevin Guthrie and Brad Unchet, as well as by fullbeck far Curry comming out of the backfield...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Traditional Upstart Princeton Boasts Strong Aerial Attack | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

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