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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regan claims that he had no damning evidence against Drexel, and was convinced that he had done nothing wrong, so he refused to cut a deal. The Justice Department was irritated, to put it mildly. Far from having the IRS handle this as a regular tax case, or even as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Still, it is the later artist who has won a more valid celebrity. This is the solitary poet of the desert, interpreter of bleached bone and sand and light -- light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of The Desert | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

At the same stressful time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Low On Gas | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

NEW YORK CITY. At P.S. 93, a youngster tells teacher Donald Miller, "Melvin has a toy." Since toys are not allowed in the lunchroom, the teacher confronts five-year-old Melvin and demands that he hand it over. Miller suddenly faces not a toy but a "Saturday-night special" pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shootouts in The Schools | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTON. A barrage of gunfire erupts just outside Woodrow Wilson High School as classes are dismissed for the day. Four students are shot, but all survive. Later, a teen-age boy who is not enrolled at Wilson is convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. The spark for the mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shootouts in The Schools | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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