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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mistake of ignoring Hart before New Hampshire. After that shock, Mondale seemed strangely liberated, giving his strongest speeches of the campaign on his best issue, compassion and fairness to the poor. He attacked Hart with a toughness many thought Mondale lacked. As Illinois approached, Mondale began to lose some steam, but he remained well insulated by his able handlers. All of a sudden his stolid candidacy, which had contrasted so poorly with Hart's campaign of new ideas, began to look safer to voters unsettled by Hart's change of name (from Hartpence) and age (younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing the Front-Runner Jinx | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...move has been building since the annual inflation rate approached 300% in February. It gathered steam on Monday, when the leader of the tiny Tami Party, whose three members belong to the Likud coalition, called for early elections. The sudden about-face was partly attributed in some quarters to pressure from Nissim Gaon, a Swiss-Jewish multimillionaire and Tami benefactor. After Nigeria failed to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars for a chain of luxury hotels he was building, Gaon reportedly asked Shamir's government to allow Israeli banks in Switzerland to give him loan guarantees. When Finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tense Vigil | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...only does Geneses feature the latest in hair design, it also offers a complete health spa with sauna, steam, whirlpool, and exercise room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hairstyle For a Lifestyle | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

...shortcoming in giving poses a direct threat to the Faculty's budget and as the Campaign started to lose steam this year the Faculty had to rework its budget...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Losing Steam | 3/8/1984 | See Source »

...diameter will flood the ducts in less than 30 seconds with about half a million gallons of water. The water will be stored in two tanks. The 6,000° F heat produced by the shuttle will be tamed by the liquid, generating huge billows of steam from the ducts during and after the launch. At Cape Canaveral, the vents are lined with firebrick; at Vandenberg, they are made from approximately 130,000 cu. yds. of solid concrete. A special vacuuming process was applied to the concrete while it was setting. This sucked out air and moisture quickly, resulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: New Pad for the Space Shuttle | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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