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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vicious hound of the Baskervilles that burst upon Sherlock Holmes out of the fog has returned to haunt the streets of America. The creature last week attacked a 71-year-old woman in Stone Mountain, Ga., dragging her across her driveway and savaging her so badly that she required 100 stitches. It snapped and tore at an unemployed man as he watched the July 4 fireworks in Rochester; last week he died from his multiple injuries, including a 15-in. wound from calf to thigh. And in Atlanta, Houston and Ramsay, Mich., it has seized small children like rag dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Time Bombs on Legs | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Broker Jerry Tachick depends on a rugged four-wheel-drive Chevy Suburban to reach the homes of many of his clients who live along the unpaved mountain roads of Cody, Wyo. (pop. 8,093). His colleague Jim Sipp of Rexburg, Idaho (pop. 12,084), often dodges feisty farm dogs as he hikes across sprawling potato fields to meet with customers. Meanwhile, Jim Bashor of Anacortes, Wash. (pop. 10,060), spends a good deal of time riding ferries off the Northwest coast to catch up with the salmon fishermen he hopes will buy stocks and bonds from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biggest Little Brokerage | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...does, drowning everything, including patience, in a sea of recrimination and invective. The preachiness of The Rat ultimately grows fatiguing and self-negating. If the human race is truly as pigheaded and suicidal as it is portrayed here, then such a book will only add to the "garbage mountain" from which the She-rat speaks her eulogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinking Ship THE RAT by Gunter Grass | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...assumed to be the primary reason for the rapid soil development in the area. After the soils were buried by thick layers of pyroclastic flows and debris, complex physical and chemical processes began, aided mainly by the naturally produced acid rain resulting from gases emitted by the mountain. This has been the main cause of soil regeneration. The pocket-gopher theory, though appealing, is much too simplistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Volcano's Rebirth | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Compared with the entire mountain of debt owed by the 15 most heavily indebted Third World nations -- about $463 billion, of which $286 billion is owed to private banks -- the unpaid IOUs piled up before the Paris Club, while substantial, seem of only secondary importance. But before they begin their own painstaking sessions with debtors, the world's major banks often wait to see how club governments will react to requests for postponed loan repayment. The club also has an important effect on the cash flow of needy governments. Unlike banks, which postpone only the repayment of principal on loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Debt? Ring Up the Louvre | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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