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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defeats did not seriously threaten Carter's 2-to-l lead in delegates so far selected for the Democratic nominating convention in August, but they did indicate the depth of the national dissatisfaction with the President. That mood had many causes, both foreign and domestic. But one theme rang clear among the voters who were interviewed as they left the polling booths: about half believed that they were worse off financially than they had been a year earlier. And those who felt that way voted overwhelmingly against the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Time of Wild Gyrations | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...guests had departed and Tarnower was in his second-floor bedroom. Two hours later, shots rang out. While Housekeeper-Cook Suzanne van der Vreken phoned the police, her husband raced upstairs. He found Tarnower, clad in beige pajamas, lying between twin beds and dying from four bullet wounds. Van der Vreken rushed to the window and glimpsed a blue 1973 Chrysler sedan in the driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...announced candidate, he plummeted in New Hampshire as elsewhere in the country. Voters questioned his stands on issues, wondered over his inept campaigning and brought up old doubts about Chappaquiddick. On the weekend before primary day, Kennedy threw everything and everyone into the campaign, including 1,500 volunteers who rang countless doorbells and phones to summon supporters to the polls. He managed only to narrow the margin to 11%, enough for him to keep on campaigning, but still an embarrassing defeat by most standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy: We're in It to Stay | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Moscow was quick to deny any such ambitions. Stories of Soviet intervention in Yugoslavia, complained TASS last week, were "crude and provocative." But with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan fresh in everybody's mind, the disclaimers initially rang a bit hollow. Mysterious troop movements in Eastern Europe gave rise to rumors that the Soviets were mobilizing in preparation for Tito's death. The U.S.S.R. has 31 divisions in Eastern Europe: four are stationed in Hungary, with which Yugoslavia shares a common border. At week's end, however, Washington officials were satisfied that the troop movements involved routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Tito's Health: A New Worry | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...Grinch did not steal the retail Christmas." So says Ted Grindal, a happy executive with the Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson specialty and department-store chain, speaking about the 14% sales increase his company rang up in December. While not every retailer did that well, most were pleasantly surprised by the big spending they saw this holiday season. The forecasts for December, in which stores commonly do about 20% of their annual trade, were for very slow business as a result of consumer worries about the economy. But now it appears that, overall, sales ran 5% to 10% ahead of last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Semi-Happy Returns | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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