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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things. Moreover, even while the international purchasing power of the dollar has declined since the Plaza Accord, the price of imported goods in the U.S. has often failed to rise by an equivalent amount (see chart). The explanation: foreign exporters have been willing to cut their profit margins in order to retain their share of the U.S. market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game of Chicken | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...become like Elias, back from the grave to avenge his own murder? "You have to fight evil if you are going to be a good man," Stone says. "That's why Chris killed Barnes. Because Barnes deserved killing." Or has he emulated his enemy? Has he become Barnes in order to kill him? Stone has another answer: "I also wanted to show that Chris came out of the war stained and soiled -- all of us, every vet. I want vets to face up to it and be proud they came back. So what if there was some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...defenses." Of Elway, Taylor mused, "I sure hope we don't have to face him again." If everyone is right, and the Giants win their first world championship in 30 years, Coach Parcells will be soaked with his usual Gatorade. If everyone is wrong, something stronger will be in order, at least in New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elway and The Giant Way | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...okay to recognize that women have some difference in their requirements," says Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who has criticized feminists in the past for denigrating the importance of women's child-rearing and family responsibilities. "This decision means that there is recognition at the highest legal levels that in order to get equal results for women in the workplace, you have to create family supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garland's Bouquet | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...Westerns, a genre he favored, Reagan enjoyed playing the brave loner facing a mob: "If one can't handle this" he tells a deputy in Law and Order (1953), "two won't be any good." In fact, the author notes, the old cattle towns relied upon conscientious law enforcement; Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp were both forced out of Dodge City as troublemakers. During World War II, Reagan acted in propaganda films for the Army. Here, too, facts became servants of the Message, and they remained so in peacetime. "By the time I got out of the Army Air Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Somnipractor REAGAN'S AMERICA: INNOCENTS AT HOME | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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