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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year in which death finally pried loose Leonid Brezhnev's frozen grip on the Soviet Union, and Yuri Andropov, the cold-eyed ex-chief of the KGB, took command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians and at the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps. It was a year in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...they are also on the map. Three weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal described the scene in a front-page article on the migration of the Northern unemployed to the Sunbelt. Ever since, Tent City's residents, both entertained and irritated, have seen a steady procession of reporters and cameramen pursuing footage and recession-style quotes. The three national TV networks carried stories. "We've had so many reporters out here," says J.D. Dunn, an unemployed construction superintendent from Livingston, Texas, who says he has just landed a job servicing local sewaging plants, "we just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Success Spoil Tent City? | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Wherever the blame is put, Reagan has made only a token effort to reduce the deficit in his next budget. In the two weeks following the elections, he and his advisers held nine meetings to map out fiscal 1984 budget proposals, which will be presented to Congress in refined form two months from now. The rough cut: $26 billion to be taken exclusively from non-defense spending, including $8 billion from Social Security benefits, leaving a deficit estimated at a minimum of $180 billion. Budget Director David Stockman said it could even rise as high as $195 billion unless changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying the Collision Course | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only writer around who can get a good, funny love song out of a date where the lovers eat fried chicken from Bob's Big Boy and wipe their fingers on a Texaco road map...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Against the American Grain | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Just a few days before the graduation ceremony, the Hastings received the North House programs for the afternoon festivities which take place in the respective Houses. On the back of the program was a map of Harvard which extended north just about to Walker St.--completely omitting the Quad...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The Quad Squad | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

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