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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drinking it would make them fight like Grant. If Reagan is afflicted by senility, some of the world's leaders might try a case of it. Whether Reagan will ultimately be judged a great President remains to be seen, but he has shown himself to be one of the strongest leaders of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Yankee Doodle Magic | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Realistically, however, Bachrach is the only candidate who has a chance to beat out Kennedy for the Democratic nomination in the primary this September. According to most polls the liberal state senator is the second strongest candidate and among the most effective fundraisers. But the campaign themes Bachrach has chosen for his race against the son of Robert F. Kennedy will simply guarantee a victory for the Kennedy symbolism he denounces...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Follow the Leader | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...freshman and junior varsity, however, captured a victory last week which may proclaim them the strongest and second strongest crews of their level in the nation...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Varsity Crew Won't Go to Henley Regatta | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...time I wrote Democracy in America, one of the strongest fears was that this form of government would be tantamount to mob rule. I suggested how the American system could prevent or mitigate the tyranny of the majority. This process went further than I anticipated. Now I am hard put to find any majority in America at all. There are, to pick but one example, more women in the United States than men; yet since gaining suffrage in 1920 they have failed to win decisive power at any level of government. I attribute this to the fact that women, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Another Look At Democracy in America | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...time of the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, one of the Reagan Administration's strongest Caribbean backers was Tom Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados. Among Washington's strongest re- gional critics was Adams' chief opponent, former Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Since then, Adams has died and been replaced by Bernard St. John, but the U.S.'s Caribbean policy has remained a controversial subject on the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbados: Big Win for a U.S. Critic | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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