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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total darkness, and he had totally given up on ever seeing the right slide, it suddenly appeared in full glory in the middle of his face. Watching him tap his way back to the podium with his pointer, his tangled, uncooperative microphone cord swinging behind him like the Cowardly Lion's tail, I wondered if his career was over...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

Pete Holmes, at 158 lbs., tied his Lion counterpart at 1-1, as did 126-lb. Scott Beck. Jeff Clark grappled his way to a 6-0 win in the 134-lb. division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 2/18/1986 | See Source »

...after a Lion time-out with slightly under nine minutes remaining, Columbia started to solve the Crimson defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ice-Cold Men Cagers Collapse, | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...year's budget. Then beginning with the fiscal-1987 budget that Reagan must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until 1991, when the lion will lie down with the lamb and the deficit will total zero. The new law even dictates that half of the current cuts are to come from military spending (to be trimmed 4.9%) and half from nonmilitary outlays (4.3%). But not from us, the oysters began protesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Condemned to a hangman's noose were Satwant Singh, Kehar Singh and Balbir Singh. The three Sikh militants are not related; all Sikh men take the name Singh, which means lion. Satwant, who was one of Gandhi's security guards, opened fire on the Prime Minister while she was walking down a path near her residence. Kehar and Balbir, neither of whom was at the assassination scene, were accused of being part of a conspiracy to murder Gandhi, who was succeeded by her son Rajiv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India I Am Innocent | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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