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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other advertisements lure young people with implicit promises of greater sexual confidence and instant athletic ability, she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Links Ads and Drinking | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

Several foreign owners have enjoyed almost instant success with the U.S. companies they took over. One such corporation is Bertelsmann, the West German media giant, which has engineered turnarounds at RCA Records and Doubleday publishing. But a surprising number of other foreign investors have so far proved luckless on U.S. turf. Among the pitfalls found in TIME's survey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Foreign Owners I Came, I Saw, I Blundered | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...proposed rules have sparked an instant controversy among researchers here, particularly because they may have implications for the University's Medical Science Partnership (MSP), a venture capital fund for marketing new technology that comes out of Medical School research...

Author: By Ryan Schneider, | Title: Scholars Concerned By NIH Proposals | 10/7/1989 | See Source »

...hall is confirmation of emerging political clout. So it was a triumphal moment last week when Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins defeated three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch to win the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City. Since Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1, Dinkins became an instant choice to prevail over the Republican challenger, former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, and become the first black chief executive of the nation's largest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope, Not Fear | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...tour, Mick wanted to cruise the night life; individual ambitions ran contrary to the good of the band. Whatever it was, it seemed likely that they had been together too long -- 27 years, to be exact. So when Slipping Away begins and the husky fragility of Richards' vocal takes instant hold, it is clear that this is more than just a good closer for a record. Richards takes the lead for once, and Jagger glides in on harmony. It's a political gesture, a way of dealing with all that friction, even as it's being moved out front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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