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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invaluable "market intelligence" on the Navy's needs for IFF gear, much of the information either internal or leaked before it was supposed to be made public. (Hazeltine denies receiving any inside dope.) Parkin, says TIME's source, did not bother to ask Lackner where he was getting his stuff; perhaps he did not want to know. Lackner acknowledges getting information about IFF from Berlin, but contends that he broke no laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beltway Bandits at Work In the Pentagon | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...over. You fight and you go home. Before or after, I don't respect any of them more than another. What they look like doesn't really matter. I never dwell on what's to be done or what's been done. I just don't think of stuff like that. In my heart, I know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...biggest challenge facing Duberstein may be finding something exciting to do. Reagan's agenda for his final months in office is hardly the stuff to send an overachiever's blood racing: preparing for the economic summit in Toronto this week, leading a virtually hopeless drive to win more funds for the Nicaraguan contras, working to revise the trade bill, pushing for stringent work requirements in the new welfare-reform legislation, campaigning for Bush. While Duberstein tries to generate enthusiasm in his staff, some observers expect a rash of White House resignations this summer. "I wouldn't want to be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Who's Minding the Lights? | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...level question asks: Suppose you have ten coins and have at least one each of a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny. What is the least amount of money you could have? Kids who cannot handle such penny-ante stuff are undoubtedly in deep trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flunking Grade in Math | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...Author Peter Carey's third novel has begun to build to a spectacular finish. But none of the surprises to come are any more outlandish than the trail of circumstances and coincidences that have led up to them. Like the glass structure it celebrates, Oscar and Lucinda seems the stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail. The book does not, of course, weigh twelve tons, but it will seem substantial enough to readers unable to put it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Joys of Glass and Gambling OSCAR AND LUCINDA | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

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