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...Massachusetts, Dukakis has become an object of political scorn. The Governor who boasted repeatedly during the 1988 presidential campaign of balancing ten budgets in a row is drowning in red ink. His credibility is shot. Legislators he once controlled dismiss him as irrelevant. Rarely has a lustrous reputation sunk so far so fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Losses Keep Mounting | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Johnny had really sunk low. A trip to Seattle proved fruitless. "You just missed him," I was told. "He took a job even worse than this...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Locating Long-Lost Athletes Like Larry | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

Halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, near the tiny town of Parkfield, scientists are conducting an experiment that they hope will open the door to a new era of earthquake prediction. Along a 20-mile section of the San Andreas, researchers have sunk strain gauges up to 1,000 ft. deep into the earth and laced the surface with "creep meters" that measure rock movement. "We're listening to the heartbeat of this section of the fault very, very closely," says the Geological Survey's Thatcher. The Parkfield section of the San Andreas is unusual in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Waiting for the Big One | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...great photographs have lives of their own, but they can be as false as dreams. Somehow the mind knows that and sorts out the matter, and permits itself to enjoy the pictures without getting sunk in the really mysterious business that they involve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...COUNTRY. A Viet Nam vet (Bruce Willis) reconciles himself to his niece (radiant Emily Lloyd) and his country. Sounds like your basic TV movie, sunk by noble intentions. But here well meaning translates into well done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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