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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have had these problems for a while, and Reagan's only answer seems to have been to run up sky's-the-limit deficits and say that things are getting better. Compared to the period between World War II and 1980, the economy is not reality getting better. More important, the deficits being used to cover up economic problems will make them harder to cope with later...

Author: By David S. Grahmin, | Title: Mortgaging The Future | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...program decisions or editorial content of its media properties. Says Murphy: "If you think I know enough about scripts that I'm going to make changes in network programming, you're crazy." Which means that except for the usual intrigues, double-dealing and airplanes falling from the sky, the Carringtons of Dynasty probably have nothing to fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Battling Back From No. 3 | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...with customers," Bally's Alan Rosenzweig says of Mays, "but he spends more time with charities and schools." Either radiating altruism or blushing from embarrassment, retired athletes as distinguished as Brooks Robinson, Johnny Unitas, Walt Frazier and Phil Esposito have danced around in crap-game commercials, like so many Sky Mastersons in a velveteen sewer, warbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Willie, Mickey and Nathan Detroit | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...Soviets have a number of reasons for opposing Star Wars. They are fearful of American technological prowess and they are prone to dote on worst-case scenarios. Reagan's dream of space-based battle stations that could zap missiles out of the sky is a Soviet military planner's nightmare. In order to counter such a U.S. capability, the Soviets would have to expand and overhaul their entire offensive arsenal and probably undertake a huge defensive buildup of their own. The mega-rubles involved would have to be diverted from the nonmilitary sectors of the economy, where Gorbachev faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: Both Continuity and Vitality | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Middle America Didn't you always suspect some buy depot types who asked for a dollar really could offer you change for your twenty? Who hasn't met the nice suburban couple with their laughing gas-like smiles who sing showtunes as they drive down the highway in their sky-blue station wagons? It sounds like stereotyping, as might befit a director first made famous as Archie Bunker's "Meathead" son-in-law, but this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like "Girl...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Meathead Strikes Again | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

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