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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he flew over Metropolis back in 1939, he was merely a mild-mannered reporter with amazing superpowers. Now Clark Kent is back, but as the Yuppie of Steel. When he is not chasing stories as a star journalist for the Daily Planet, he writes novels, attends evening parties and shares his inner feelings -- can we talk? -- with his friend and colleague Lois Lane. His superbody has been redrawn along Rambo lines to reflect the iron-pumping fad of the '80s. Nor does Superman come quite as cheap as he used to. Last week a new, updated version of Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bang! Pow! Zap! HEROES ARE BACK! | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Receiving Leaders Player G Ct Yds Long TD Joe Pusateri 2 3 33 21 0 George Sorbara 2 3 27 12 0 Kent Lucas 2 2 34 17 0 Brian Barringer 2 2 31 22 0 Brian O'Neil 1 2 26 17 0 Joe Connolly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football Statistics | 10/4/1986 | See Source »

...eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test is getting a face-lift. "This revision is long overdue," says Kent State Psychologist John Graham, one of four professors who have been working on the test for four years. "We psychologists have been less than responsible in letting it go so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Face-Lift for a Famous Test | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

Player G Ct Yds Long TD Brian O'Neil 1 2 26 17 0 Kent Lucas 1 1 17 17 0 Jim Morris 1 1 14 14 0 George Sorbara 1 1 12 12 0 Joe Pusateri 1 1 10 10 0 Ed Boyle 1 1 9 9 0 Passing Leaders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football Statistics | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

Tisch had no real master plan in building his empire, no carefully crafted long-term strategy to consult. He just looked for good deals, an elusive goal for many corporate chiefs. In the late 1960s, Tisch started playing the takeover game. His first catch was Lorillard, maker of Kent and True cigarettes. In 1968 Loews acquired the company in a friendly deal, but soon after the merger was completed, Tisch, taking an active hand, forced out the company's chief executive. No sense in sitting back and watching an acquisition turn sour, he believed. Lorillard profits subsequently showed stronger growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family Fortune | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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