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But, my friends said you never know when some putatively lighthearted proposal will end up leading to disaster. Take the 1981 tax cuts, for example.

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Campus Cold Warriors Relax | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

MacGruder & Loud, a new ABC show from Producer Aaron Spelling's factory, is equally lighthearted. The heroes are a pair of police officers (John Getz and Kathryn Harrold) who are secretly married but continue to share a patrol car against department rules. Their deception gets fairly elaborate: they live in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Autumn Goofs, Winter Repairs | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

Last week, as movers packed his collection of Indian tomahawks and his 1874 Wooton desk, Conable was challenging the Republican Party to be the party of Government: "The party that gets things done. Not the party of ideology, or the party of opposition, or the party of special interests or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: A Student of Leadership | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Los Angeles Correspondent Melissa Ludtke followed a confident Vice President George Bush on his eight-day trip through eleven states. Washington Correspondent David Beckwith observed the last stops of Geraldine Ferraro's precedent-setting campaign. "Her traveling entourage was upbeat and lighthearted to the end," he reported. "It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 19, 1984 | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Others view price increases in a less lighthearted manner. They include people who scrimped through the severe 1981-82 recession and now find the cost of big-ticket items like housing, which has been climbing almost twice as fast as the C.P.I. since mid-1982, to be well beyond their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticker Shock Never Stops | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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