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...mind had broken years before. He survived on technique. Ernest taught me how to forage for an all-American diet: wait politely behind a fast-food place at closing time and accept the unsold hamburgers and fries. A third problem, keeping clean, was difficult but manageable: a cold-water spigot in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Bright Cave Under the Hat | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Last December tiny Benin in western Africa dropped Marxism-Leninism as the state ideology and vowed to support private enterprise. Nicaragua, which over the past year has watched Moscow turn off the arms spigot, is in the final throes of an election process that, whatever the outcome, shows promise of being a legitimate democratic exercise. Even Libya's erratic Muammar Gaddafi, a regular Soviet arms customer, is cultivating closer ties with moderate Arab leaders. Most Soviet client states are making similar adjustments to accommodate the fast-changing times. A look at some of the most important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Don't Call Us, Friend, We'll Call You | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...legislature accepts that premise, Voke said yesterday, the fiscal woes could be treated as a one-time problem. The "spigot of spending" was turned down in the $12.3 billion budget which the House approved last month, Voke said...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: House Gives Support to $338M in Added Spending | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

Throughout the five years that the Reagan Administration has made common cause with the rebels, the most decisive skirmishes have taken place outside the jungles of Central America. On Capitol Hill a wavering Congress, turning the aid spigot on and off, has sometimes seemed to the contras a more troublesome adversary than the 65,000 armed soldiers of the Sandinista People's Army. Now a homegrown peace plan hatched in the capitals of Central America has upstaged the war. Even some contra civilian leaders have caught peace fever, declaring their intention to re-enter politics in Nicaragua and leave those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Apocalypse Soon | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...Tammy $52,000, yet all the Bakkers' expenses, from tutors for the couple's two children to their personal automobiles, were covered by PTL. The ministry paid for virtually everything, no matter how trivial: Bakker once summoned a PTL plumber to attach a lawn hose to a spigot at his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enterprising Evangelism | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

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