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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern dairy farming stimulates extra growth in the hooves, making them vulnerable to cracking during the cows' winter confinement in concrete-floored farmyards. So Angwin called up the Gates Rubber Co. in Scotland, maker of the chic Wellies, which designed a buckled, foot-high Hobble Boot with a sole in the shape of a hoof. Angwin has ordered 500 boots at $24 each, and estimates he will save roughly $1,800 a year on veterinary bills and lost milk production. His enthusiasm for the bovine booties is so keen that he has sold over 100 of them to fellow farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOOFWEAR: Chic Boots For Bossy | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Palestinian officials say that such a government in the territories would not replace the PLO, which Arab summits have declared the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians, but would act as one of its institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLO Leaders Agree to Recognize Israel | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

Unlike almost any other virus written, the Cornell virus was not designed to destroy files, steal or change data, play pranks on the users, or even allow its creator to gain illegal access to the infected networks--its sole purpose was to spread itself to every machine it found...

Author: By Gregory R. Galperin, | Title: Computer `Virus' Infects Nation With Built-In Wile | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...terrorists must be deprived of the "oxygen of publicity." Last week she tried to cut off the air supply of the Irish Republican Army by banning radio and television interviews with members of the outlawed guerrilla group and its political arm, Sinn Fein (including Gerry Adams, the party's sole representative in Parliament). The action, which also applied to some Protestant extremist groups, marked the most sweeping British censorship decision since World War II. The Republic of Ireland has maintained a similar ban since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censorship: Terror In, Rights Out | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Flote vies with the penitents for the benediction of the Church, personified by the Archbishop Monselet (Panayotis Agapitos), who ultimately favors Flote to spite his grave assistant, Father Toulon (Stefan Howells). Monselet is a purple-clad fop whose sole concern is for his own safety, and Agapitos' performance is as biting as it is hysterical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

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