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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that they simply won't use their cash to create jobs as long as they see high union wages and local taxes threatening their profits in the American Industrial Heartland. Instead, corporations either try to play one state off another in a game of tax-abatement chicken, or they pack up their factories and move to the Third World. Or they merge; Bluestone and Harrison note that two-thirds of all "new" investment spending by U.S. corporations since 1972 actually went for unproductive takeovers of one company by another...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: America Winds Down | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Your story "Dense Pack Gets Blasted" [Dec. 20] states that after more than eight years of study, the expenditure of $4.5 billion on the missile and consideration of some 30 options, the Pentagon lacks a politically acceptable and scientifically credible basing mode. Has it occurred to anyone that this may be the first clue that there is no credible plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1983 | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...filed a pack of Bubble-Yum in the shelves somewhere on Three. See if you can find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Long Night in the Library | 1/13/1983 | See Source »

Even an emotionally disturbed man like Mayer can perceive that Dense Pack and the MX are not the antidotes to the world's unrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

Schuler and a Northeastern duo of Chris Harrison and David Burke sprung out to the front of the pack and there they stayed, matching each other almost stride for stride until the final lap. When the gun sounded for the final Lap Harrison began to pour it on, grabbing the lead as Schuler fell to third...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Northeastern Trips Thinclads, 76-60; Schuler Takes Mile on Last Lap | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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