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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, insisted last week, "What we've done here does not waddle enough to be called ducks." Perhaps. But since the nearly $6 billion in revenue enhancements enacted last week will rise to $30 billion over the next five years, taxpayers may be forgiven if they exercise their right to squawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quack! Quack! Quack! | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...that the University's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities guaranteeing all students, including gay students, among other things, the freedom of speech, freedom personal force and freedom of movement, stands violated by the presence of such a group on our campus cannot be argued, nor can it be forgiven. The rights guaranteed all students and the worth of our non-discrimination policy are put into question by such negligence on the part of Dean Epps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...getting into your running shoes and hitting the pavement. After all, everyone concedes that exercising is one of the best ways to stave off heart attacks and other health problems. But hard physical exertion is downright unpleasant, and you -- along with about 50 million other sedentary Americans -- could be forgiven for putting it off or avoiding it altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Take A Walk - and Live | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

When State President F.W. de Klerk speaks of his vision of a new South Africa, the country's voteless 26 million blacks can be forgiven for being skeptical. The reform policies of De Klerk's predecessor, P.W. Botha, unleashed disappointment and nearly three years of violent unrest before grinding to a halt. But one of the most vocal critics of De Klerk's reluctance to abolish apartheid is a prominent Afrikaner who sat only a few feet behind him on inauguration day last month: his elder brother Willem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Brother Against Brother | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...will be forgiven." This is the message the fans are sending to the players as they cheer the first pitch today in Oakland and tomorrow in Chicago. All the losses, the errors and the failed attempts at the Heimlich maneuver will be erased from history. For one of the teams...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: This Year, Someone's Gotta Win | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

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