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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...

Author: By Gregory D. Rowe, | Title: Selling Your Soul to the President | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...military operation began with the muster of several thousand troops in Mexico City's Zocalo. About 600 motorcycle troopers, able to dodge debris on otherwise closed streets, fanned out for a quick survey of the extent of the catastrophe. The army also made available 500 trucks to transport rescue workers from one site to another. Patrolling troops warned residents against lighting matches or smoking in neighborhoods where gas lines had ruptured. Water and food supplies appeared adequate, although distribution was far from normal. Even so, many poor residents began filling plastic pails with water as a precaution against possible shortages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

However, all three of UConn's first-half goals came on quick bursts down the field; bursts on which Harvard's backfield couldn't respond quickly enough...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UConn Blows by Crimson | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...feminist buried under mounds of laundry, Judith hopes solving the murder will put a little intellectual excitement back into her life and perhaps help her regain her old job as a newspaper reporter. She is occasionally scared by her own boldness, always quick-witted in stating her emotional needs and her findings as a self- appointed crimebuster. Indeed, it is a measure of Compromising Positions' intelligence that the big speech on malefemale relations falls to Edward Herrmann, playing her husband. Angrily but without self-pity, he makes the case of the drudge-aholic whose toil supports his spouse's self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Crimebuster Compromising Positions | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

After kicking off, the Crimson again caged the Lions in three plays, got the ball back, and scored in quick succession...

Author: By Bob Cunha and Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Gridders Earn Come-From-Behind Victory | 9/21/1985 | See Source »

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