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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year with ever greater efficiency. New machines have reduced handling costs from $15 per thousand letters to $3 per thousand. Despite automation, human hands still touch most letters 14 times. Automation means they just have to do it faster. "The stress is tremendous," says American Postal Workers Union President Moe Biller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mailroom Mayhem | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...leaning forward intently. There is no Ed McMahon- style sidekick; Hall prefers to trade quips with the crowd or play around with the band in recurring bits like the "poetry moments," featuring various sidemen reading silly verse. Musically, the show has brought on a host of rock performers -- Kool Moe Dee, Living Colour, Winger -- who rarely get exposure on mainstream TV. And in contrast to the carefully stage-managed routines on the Tonight show, Hall's manic energy sends a signal that just about anything can happen at his nightly party. "There used to be a feeling that late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Get Busy!! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Doug Moe, the flamboyant coach of the Denver Nuggets, got to thinking a few weeks ago that pro basketball shouldn't let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar slip into retirement without somebody standing up and saying what a "jerk" the Laker center had been "his whole life." Abdul-Jabbar let it go, but the obvious rejoinder, if he remembered the headlines of 1961, was to say at least he never accepted carfare from a fixer for listening to the pitch. That was Moe's only confessed involvement in a point-shaving mess at the University of North Carolina, but it was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Did Pete Rose Do It? What Are the Odds? | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Forman and Dawson battled through a scoreless seventh, aided by circus catches by centerfielders McConaghy for the Crimson and Eddie Looney for Boston College. But after Forman set the side down in order, Eagle Coach Moe Maloney was forced to turn to his bullpen, setting the stage for McConaghy's game-breaking round-tripper, his second of the season...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Batsmen Split Twinbill Against Boston College | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

Despite the activity, few believe that in the end the military will allow truly free elections; preparing for that possibility, the opposition parties say they will not take part in any balloting under current repressive conditions. "We are trying to change the government without bloodshed," says Moe Thi Zun, 26, head of the Democratic Party for New Society. "If the government won't accept that, we will have to try something else, but we will not retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma A Nakedly Military Government | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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