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...think anyone honestly expects to collect a single penny they pay into social security. I think everyone acknowledges that it's going to go bankrupt or kaput. The day you want to go collect your money the system will have just gone bankrupt buying a jewelled stereo system for Jane Fonda's walker...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Doug Coupland Speaks On the Trail of Generation X | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

...SOVIET UNION never produced a decent stereo, and even if it survived another 1000 years, it never would have. Its cars sucked. It had awful food and not enough of it. Its architecture was hideous. Its books and movies were boring propaganda. Its great artists were either emigres (e.g. Solzhenitsyn) or escapologists (e.g. Kabakov). It polluted like sulphur dioxide was going out of style. Its rulers were, almost without exception, bloodthirsty swine. Its record on human rights was laughable, its concern for individual freedoms nonexistent. All this and much worse is true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not a More Perfect Union | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...Barbara police department has an awesome new weapon in its arsenal: Blue Persuasion. To encourage contact with the community along State Street, the town's main drag, officers now cruise in a customized police sedan that sports a hip metallic blue paint job, murals, mag wheels and a booming stereo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: Cruisin' with The Homeboys: Cruisin' with The Homeboys | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...Looking for a rugged all-terrain vehicle? Then a Humvee might be just the buggy for you. It doesn't come with air conditioning or stereo, but it's been tested in real battlefield conditions. Humvee, which is short for High- Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, is the new U.S. Army jeep. Deployed first in combat in Panama, some 20,000 Humvees were used in the Persian Gulf war. Starting last week, the Humvee was being offered for sale to the public by defense contractor LTV, which is trying to diversify its way out of bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: Humvee in The Driveway | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...another piece of stereo equipment. We've been LPed, 8-tracked, cassetted, CDed, and DATed, and now comes the Mini Disc, or MD, unveiled last week by Sony, which expects it to surface in stores by late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTRONICS Stop Us Before We Buy Again! | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

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