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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders not only expect to sign a treaty in Washington that will eliminate their medium- and shorter-range missiles, but hope to lay the groundwork for a much more significant 50% slash in long-range strategic missiles. In the upbeat glow of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's quick trip to Washington, the President announced that he hoped to sign an agreement on long-range missiles "during a visit to Moscow next year," possibly in the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A No-Frills Summit | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...signals were there that the public liked this man in the White House and that the press should lay off," said Stahl, currently the mediator on CBS's Face the Nation...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Public Influences Press, Stahl Tells Law Forum | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...last week won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is a liberal academic who has never hidden his disdain for Reaganomics. And when the Brooklyn-born professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stepped before the cameras to acknowledge his award, he needed little prompting to lay into the policies that led to last week's crash. "The best thing you can say about Reaganomics," he asserted, "is that it probably happened in a fit of inattention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economics: Robert Solow: Theories of Gain | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...carry hand picks or shovels. Instead, they watched a TV monitor as a miniature camera was lowered into a narrow hole in the ground. When the video image flickered to life, the group gasped. There before them, inside a chamber that had been sealed 4,600 years ago, lay the dismantled timbers of a wooden ship. The archaeologists immediately recognized it as the long-sought companion to the famous royal ship of Cheops that now resides in a Giza museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Probing The Chambers of Cheops | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

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