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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since 1914, when U.S. engineers connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by carving a 43-mile-long canal across the Isthmus of Panama, the two ! countries have been intimately linked. So great is American influence that the U.S. dollar is legal currency in Panama. Yet Panamanians are extremely sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Dollars | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

Remember Jesse James? He was the outlaw who knocked off trains, shot innumerable law men and stars in movies that air after Letterman.

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Of Bandits and Zealots | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

We all admire Jesse, Butch and Sundance just a little bit. We wish, just a little bit, that we too had the guts to line our own pockets with ill-gotten gain. Given the scarcity of unguarded trains and the faintheartedness of most of us, the outlaw lurking in a...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Of Bandits and Zealots | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

THERE ARE A LOT of things America finds more disturbing than a likeable cowboy--even if the cowboy happens to be a murdering bandit. One of those things is "the dirty little coward." The creature had crazed eyes, relentlessly pursued James across the West and mortified himself by sleeping in...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Of Bandits and Zealots | 1/7/1987 | See Source »

As a civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson achieved his greatest gains -- and publicity -- through boycotts of consumer products whose makers discriminate against minorities. Now Jackson has taken his campaign to Japan, whose auto and electronics corporations not only export to the U.S. but are a growing presence in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Enough Smarts to Go Around | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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