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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oregon's lumber-based economy has all but collapsed in the housing slump. With unemployment at 10.1% and personal income and business taxes plummeting (the state has no sales tax), legislators will meet in January, their third attempt in a year to devise emergency measures. Possible solutions: a stiff income tax surcharge and new "sin" taxes on cigarettes and liquor, coupled with deep budget cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Beyond Their Means | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...that leave his audience nodding in agreement. "Yes, that's happened to me," or "I never thought anyone else felt that way, too." But unlike last year's a A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, his new And More By Andy Rooney leaves one with more than just a stiff neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simple Pleasures | 11/4/1982 | See Source »

...Stiff" and shy in crowds, she could be slyly witty in private. When her husband was contemplating the propriety of their having dinner in a Rome restaurant that was once the villa of Mussolini's mistress Carla Petacci, Mrs. Truman settled the matter: "Well, after all, she won't be there." Bess endured thousands of teas, receptions and galas. Mobbed by delegates and newsmen at the 1944 Democratic Convention that nominated Truman for Vice President, she lamented, "Are we going to have to go through this all the rest of our lives?" Eight and a half years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lady in the White House | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

...Harvard women's tennis team responded to its first stiff competition of the year with a 6-3 victory over the University of Virginia yesterday, coming from behind in two key matches to defeat the Cavaliers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Topple Virginia, 6-3; Evans and Kunichika Post Wins | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...forced his hand also gave proof that the principles of democracy and justice on which Israel was founded had not been buried in the rubble of Sabra and Shatila. As former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gideon Rafael put it: "The people of Israel are not only a stiff-necked but a fundamentally decent people. They will not tolerate a government that has morally, politically and economically bankrupted the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Once More into the Breach | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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