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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some doubt indeed. The story of how Geter's claim of injustice came to be heard is no dry matter of lawyers marshaling cool arguments for an appeals court. It has been a slam-bang battle waged by friends and lawyers to build public pressure. Says one of his attorneys, George Hairston: "According to an ancient proverb, 'You can get more with a gun and a smile than you can with just a smile.' We've smiled, played by the rules and got nowhere. The media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Doubt Has Been Raised | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Fighty three seconds later, the Crimson widened the gap on a more picturesque tally. Rob Wheeler working a crisp give-and-go with Rob Starbuck, taking the return pass just in time to slam it between Daskalakis's pads...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: A Crimson Surprise: 3-1 Upset at B.U. | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

...dominated recent discussions of development issues. As well as intimidating the IMF, awareness of the debt has also cramped U.S. foreign aid and cooperation among European nations. Last year's nationalization of Mexican banks dramatized just how much many foreign governments depend on Northern banks, as Mexico appeared to slam the brakes on its economic growth program simply to appease the directors of Citibank and Chase Manhattan...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: No Time for Austerity | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

...TALK BUT I HATE TO INTERRUPT GROUCHO. I SPOKE IN PUBLIC LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND WHEN I ASKED FOR A RAISE IN SALARY BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE HEARD ME. I MAKE A PRACTICE OF SPEAKING EVERY TIME CHICO MAKES A GRAND SLAM. SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR ANOTHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far back along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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