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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many investors, especially short-term speculators, were badly shaken. The biggest losers were Wall Street arbitragers, who make money by buying the stock of takeover targets and selling it at a higher price when the deals go through. The high anxiety about the junk-bond market sent the stocks of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom, Ka-boom! | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Michael's Pub, where the band finally landed a regular gig in 1971, has been the scene of more than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the two sides are still far apart on such basic issues as the pace of change and who will speak for the black majority. The clergymen handed De Klerk a 13-point agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Then There Was One | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Late in the first act, the players break through the fourth wall, but even the contrived intermission is a welcome interruption of the trial scene in which the writers, again mixing in politics, draw heavy-handed parallels to the Iran-Contra hearings.

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Modern Looking Glass | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

Five hundred-fifty flyers were handed out after that meeting with a list of organizations and resources to answer the question, "What can I do now?" before HSDC staffers ran out. Your un-named reporter was seen holding a copy. However, many others left empty-handed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Mail | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

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