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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goldman deserves considerable credit for making such sordid, depressing material compulsively readable. The Lives of John Lennon is a far more balanced and objective biography than his Elvis (1981). Goldman, a pop-culture maven and former professor of English at Columbia University, had no sympathy for Presley or for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Challenging The Myth Machine: THE LIVES OF JOHN LENNON | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

The relatively simple operation is similar to arthroscopic surgery, in which damaged tissue is removed, typically from knee joints, through a hollow tube. In the diskectomy technique, a stainless-steel tube, guided by X ray, is slipped into the incision until the tip of the instrument rests against the disk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Back Surgery Without Stitches | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Large corporations can do a lot on their own to become more nimble. One way is to stimulate employee innovation by providing entrepreneurial incentives. Under the IDEA program at Texas Instruments, workers who propose promising ideas are given the time and resources to test them. One result: the development of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Vs. Small | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Conrad, 41, formerly attached to the headquarters company of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, allegedly provided Soviet bloc agents with a flow of NATO secrets for a decade or more. Although retired since September 1985, Conrad apparently recruited helpers. As recently as last month, while under surveillance, he turned material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clerk Who Knew Too Much | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Q. But you attempted from the beginning to obtain basic facts, exactly what had occurred 20 years ago, and to obtain records. So you were apparently unsatisfied with the material developed by Mr. Kimmitt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans3 16 2008 Bush: I Have to Wait and See | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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