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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vellucci has spent most of his 34 years on the council providing the key swing vote for liberal programs such as rent control, while representing a conservative East Cambridge constituency...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Watershed Year in Cambridge Politics | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...Coleman is Bundy's attorney from Washington, D.C., and Fred Lawrence is a Methodist minister who spent the night in prayer with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Serial Killer Bundy Executed in Florida | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...strongest salvo yet in the ongoing battle. He began placing full-page ads in leading newspapers lambasting U.S. food processors for "the Poisoning of America" and featuring photos of their offending products. Sokolof, 66, a building-materials manufacturer in Omaha who suffered a heart attack 22 years ago, has spent $2 million so far on his crusade. Says he: "People feel like they have been deceived by the food companies." Sokolof points out that Procter & Gamble's Crisco is touted as having no cholesterol, but it contains palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Cookies The Heart Can Love | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...refers to Ann Richards, who delivered a stinging critique of her husband at the Democratic National Convention, as "that woman." As for Ted Kennedy's famous "Where was George?" line, Barbara can only say, "He shouldn't even say George Bush's name." Though she has spent much of her life in Texas, this product of tony Rye, N.Y., can still summon a patrician bearing to cut the uppity down to size. The next President says she is "more direct" than he is. Says campaign manager and Republican Party Chairman Lee Atwater: "She can spot a phony a mile away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Onward, ever onward. The music business means to turn VCR fanatics, who spent $7.5 billion buying and renting tapes in 1987, into music freaks. Two major artists from Columbia Records (owned, of course, by Sony) have become point men in this brand-new marketing assault: Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, who are both releasing new, ambitious feature-length video albums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magical Tours | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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