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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ran across the street and told the policeman what was going on. He looked at me and said, "This isn't him?" gesturing with his eyes at the man he was talking to. The man was older, Black, and carrying a torn paper bag. "No, go up there... The bank is there, up the street." The cruiser crept away, braking again well before it reached the bank. I gave...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Not So Funny | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Called to testify, Lucas ran into a buzz saw of objections from Rogers when he tried to argue that he had never considered the O-ring problem a flight- safety issue, even though its criticality classification meant that it clearly was. Pressed, he finally conceded, "If I had heard the alarms that have been expressed in this room this week before the flight, I certainly would have been concerned. Yes sir." Nonetheless he insisted later at a press conference, "I think it was a sound decision to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Deficiency | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...BobCo Building." What kind of place was Bob's Bob House? The narrator recalls the hospitality of his host: "My God, I drank the place dry that night, and then I had a good solid piece of American grain-fed beef and got in my car and ran over a claims adjuster and ended up in Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. That's the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Off the Wall Dating Your Mom by Ian Frazier | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union the Reformers Lead the Way | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...family feeling here, no accretion of loyalties and vendettas. There is only the nostalgia of a successful sociopath for a lawless past. "Truckloads of swag. Fur coats, televisions, clothes--all for the asking," the thug recalls. "When I was broke I just went out and robbed some more. We ran everything. We paid the lawyers. We paid the cops. Everybody had their hands out. We walked out laughing. We had the best of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Lane Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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