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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Money Party and the nation's prime minister, is a senile figurehead who can barely remember lines from her press releases. (Sound familiar?) She is carefully propped up, powdered and filmed by the advertising firms that keep the country deluged with brightly packaged misinformation. And the ad execs who push the Money Party through the elections are as mind-blown as the street junkies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN LINT: | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

Evan J. Mandery '89, chairman of the committeethat drafted the council report, said the councilwill continue to push for the reforms contained inthe report. "I don't think he [Spence] should beso fast to dismiss our recommendations, becauseinformal input currently exists and isinsufficient," Mandery said...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Dean Nixes Proposal For Student Input | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

...hostages scandal broke in November, Nancy was quicker than the President to realize its implications. Says the Reagans' son Ron: "She more than he recognized the potential for it to be as damaging as it has become." Still, in December, the First Lady was ambivalent about the need to push Regan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Say Goodbye, Don Regan | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Canal. As majority leader during Reagan's first term, Baker labeled the President's supply-side economic proposals "a riverboat gamble" and was lukewarm toward proposals to ban abortion and require prayer in schools. Nevertheless, he loyally proclaimed himself the President's "spear carrier" in the Senate and helped push through his sweeping tax cuts. "My approach with the President is very straightforward and direct," he said. "We communicate easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard Baker: The Right Man at the Right Time | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...working day begins. Guards push a pile of hempen fiber through the kormushka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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