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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steve Sax, 12-for-40 lifetime against Darling, got the Dodgers started with a single and moved to third on Mickey Hatcher's double down the leftfield line. Kirk Gibson, playing with a pulled left hamstring, then hit a scrifice fly to deep center field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dodgers Take Pennant Over Mets, 6-0 | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...YORK--Rookie Tim Belcher won his second game of the playoffs and Kirk Gibson hit his second straight game-winning homer as Los Angeles beat the New York Mets 7-4 in Game 5 yesterday to move within one game of their first National League pennant since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dodgers Batter Mets; Take 3-2 Series Lead | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

...Dukakis headquarters the major political decisions used to be made at the 9 a.m. departmental meeting that Estrich still chairs. Sasso has pre-empted some of the decision making by creating a loose, informal 8 o'clock gathering with a few key advisers, such as Kirk O'Donnell, Jack Corrigan and Peter Jacobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's The Year Of the Handlers | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...another, Kirk Douglas has been repeating that gesture most of his life. In this vigorous, anecdotal autobiography, the actor maintains that the clamorous spirit of Issur "has never left me. He is always somewhere within me, often out of sight, but never too far away . . . Often, I tried to kill him, but he never dies." At St. Lawrence University, the ragman's son was the target of anti-Semites. He answered them by becoming a varsity wrestling champion, then running successfully for office. "The alumni were furious," Douglas remembers with perverse delight: " 'What's happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buried Child THE RAGMAN'S SON | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk had created the opening. Kirk decided that a crafty way to debunk the charge that Democrats promise everything to everyone was to shrink the normally gargantuan party platform to a brief statement of principles. That seemed logical enough, but the ploy reinforced the claim by George Bush that Michael Dukakis is a "Stealth candidate" who ducks specific positions. So when Republican drafters went to work, they produced a 30,000-word monster, nearly ten times the size of its Democratic counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:Is Bigger Better? | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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