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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trench coat buys Screw for its national political coverage...

Author: By Jeffery A. Zucker, | Title: What Is So Exciting? | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

...many pre-meds does it take to screw in a light-bulb? One to screw it in and one to kick the chair out from under...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: The Metaphysical Writing on the Wall (and Desks) | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

...talking about writing down that nobody's supposed to screw around with us," said John S. Lilly '87, the guide's new editor...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Committee Now Favoring Faculty CUE Guide Role | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...their watching families, mugged and shouted "Hi, Mom!" as if they had been filmed at a picnic. White House officials protested that television was playing into the captors' hands, primarily by giving them the very world publicity they coveted. "This is bizarre," stormed one Reagan aide. "It can only screw up what we are trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Agony Is Over | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...Yorkers cast off for the last time, they called out, "This is a case of ships deserting the sinking rat." In the morning, about breakfast time, the new owner's crew dragged away a dinghy Ellie had filled with petunias and replaced it with an upscale plant: a screw pine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: End of an Era | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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