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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a couple a smooches, but that's all right. Instead of Ferris ditching Cameron and getting it on with Sloane (certainly an enviable proposition, for Sara oozes sex), the three friends go to a ballgame, crash a fancy restaurant in jeans, see Ferris dominate a parade, and run smack into Ferris' father. Meanwhile, a couple of parking lot attendents are joyriding Cameron's father's limited edition Ferrari...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing Hookey | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

Reagan has favored working quietly with U.S. allies and trading partners to coax a wider opening in world markets for U.S. products and services, while many lawmakers have insisted that only retaliatory measures will work. Smack in the middle of the debate are a wide array of lobbyists, for business, farmers, labor unions and others, with their own conflicting views...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Passes Bill on Import Restraints | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...Monday April 14, a bright, sunny day around noon, I looked out my office window from the eighth floor of Holyoke Center. To my horror, I saw a man beating a woman, down on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop Streets. As I watched him smack her repeatedly on the side of the head, and forcibly prevent her from running away, I dialed 911 for help. Between the time that I first saw this spectacle and finished telling the police where and what it was, I must have watched at least 30 people walk down Dunster Street--without stopping. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dangerous Apathy | 5/14/1986 | See Source »

...NAME OF the game is changing faster than you can say "ahhh," and no mean tongue depressor is going to hold back the course of history. Every facet of the medical world is undergoing rapid transformation. And smack in the middle of this revolution and its concomittant crisis is the state of Massachusetts...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Practicing Politics | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

...Libyan patrol boats and fired on three other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Firepower | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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