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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there he was at yet another coffee hour, fresh from a debate in which his record had been attacked, and he wondered if he might have some pecan pie with ice cream before the interrogation started. It arrived in due course, but Dukakis watched the ice cream melt while the impatient voters grilled him about Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Refuseniks | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

Given what is now known, the West cannot afford to let down its guard. The Soviet armies and the Kremlin's worldwide apparatus of subversion are not about to melt away. But if Gorbachev can show that he is serious about changing the ground upon which the superpower competition will henceforth be waged, the West should be pleased: the new playing field is one on which the Soviets are still amateurs. For if the rivalry evolves from one based on military assertion into one dominated by the force of ideas, the appeal of values and the potency of economic systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will The Cold War Fade Away? | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...soldier in the holy war against Communism. Yet somewhere along the line, this man whose earnest, blue- eyed features were the stuff of Marine recruiting posters went off track. He came to see every bureaucratic squabble as a battle between good and evil, and his passionate intensity began to melt his judgment. He was a man whose zealotry served his country better in war than in peace. As in Greek tragedy, the same characteristics that catapulted North to great heights sent him plunging to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

After two years, X rays showed that life-threatening plaque had started to melt away in 16.2% of the treated patients, vs. 2.4% in the control group. The results were so dramatic that some health professionals called for routine anticholesterol drug treatment after bypass surgery. Cardiologist Blankenhorn, who was one of the 162 subjects of the study, demurred: "Drugsalone are not enough. People are still going to have to change to a healthier life-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bypass Breakthrough | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...Florida, her lamb would melt...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Achieving the Divine Spark | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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