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...United States will win the World Cup. Bobby Knight will simmer down. The Red Sox will win the World Series. The Rangers will win the Stanley Cup. The senior baseball league will gain respectability. George Foreman will defeat Tyson for the title. Whoops, slipped back into what won't happen in the '90s. Sorry...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The `So What Else is New '90s' | 1/10/1990 | See Source »

...their own slots at the major tournaments. Boxing, aside from Mike Tyson's bum-of-the-month festival, is one big Over the Hill Gang. Last week's waltz between Sugar Ray Leonard, 33, and Roberto Duran, 38, was the top-grossing fight in history. Next month George Foreman, now bigger than Mount Rushmore and twice as old, will face perennial white heavyweight Gerry Cooney. Someone will get hurt -- probably the first one who throws a punch -- and people will pay to watch. Like rock 'n' roll, sports used to be a young man's game. But with the graying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Never Having to Grow Up | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Even then, Jakes resisted internal party pressure to convene an emergency session of the Central Committee. "It wasn't just the Central Committee; it was the regional party officials who were shouting for it," says Antonin Mlady, a factory foreman and member of the newly formed Politburo. Finally the Politburo overruled Jakes and called a meeting. On Friday, Nov. 24, the session opened in an austere hall in the Stalinist-era Party Political University on the outskirts of Prague. There, Jakes tried one last tactic to save his job: he proposed a new law that would permit freedom of assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Anatomy of A Purge: Czechoslovak Jake and Gorbachev | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Toronto Tycoon. A former shop foreman who became one of Canada's top real estate developers, Robert Campeau in 1986 went on a U.S. shopping spree. Campeau, 66, paid $3.6 billion for Allied Stores and won Federated Department Stores for $6.6 billion in a celebrated 1988 battle with R.H. Macy & Co. But the takeovers left Campeau, who had little experience in U.S. retailing, sorely overextended. His attempt to raise cash by selling off several chain stores brought disappointing proceeds, and then the women's apparel trade went into a slump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raiders on The Run: The Big Comeuppance | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...when she claimed she was kidnaped at knifepoint from a Fort Lauderdale restaurant parking lot and raped twice. The jury's verdict last week: not guilty, on the ground that she had solicited sex. "We all feel she asked for it for the way she was dressed," explained jury foreman Roy Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American: Notes TRIALS She Asked For It | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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