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...INDUSTRY isn't the only thing hit by deflation these days. The price of oil has gone way down. And so has the price of life; it just isn't what it was in the "good-ole' days." In fact, today the price of one human being has plummeted to seven years...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Overburdened Prisons | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

...little ole Bright Center proved to be a bigger obstacle for the Big Broncs Bombers...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: A Bright Sweep of the Broncos | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Helping Congressmen get re-elected is an increasingly popular device. Veteran Washington Lobbyist Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. is on no fewer than 50 "steering committees" set up to raise money for congressional election campaigns. By night, Good Ole Boy Boggs can be found shmoozing at Capitol Hill fund raisers, where lobbyists drop off envelopes containing checks from Political Action Committees (PACs) at the door before digging into the hors d'oeuvres. By day, Boggs lobbies Congressmen, often the same ones for whom he has raised money the night before. Lately high-power political consulting firms such as Black, Manafort & Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Influence | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Stone, who practices the hardball politics he first learned as an aide to convicted Watergate Co- Conspirator Charles Colson, fancies $400 suits and lawn parties. With his heavy-lidded eyes and frosty demeanor, he openly derides Atwater's client, Vice President Bush, as a "weenie." Atwater, an impish good ole boy from South Carolina, wears jeans and twangs an electric guitar. Both, however, drive Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Slickest Shop in Town | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...thought of games at Briggs, with the good ole Harvard band straggling in minutes before tipoff to crank out the Star Spangled Banner--sometimes...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Behind the Brouhaha at Barton | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

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