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...physical damage wrought so far by the mines that contra guerrillas took responsibility for sowing inside the harbors of Marxist Nicaragua would hardly be noticed in a declared war. The highest reported tally: six Nicaraguan vessels and six ships of five other nations damaged but none confirmed sunk; ten sailors seriously injured but no one killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosion over Nicaragua | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

Just focusing on unregistered Black voters gives an indication of the untapped power at the hands of the Parties. Nine in 10 Blacks vote for Democrats and that figure may well be even worse for Republicans in 1984, since Reagan's approval rating with Blacks has sunk below 10 percent. In Massachusetts alone, where Reagan carried the state by less than 3000 votes, drawing some of the more than 60,000 unregistered Blacks to the polls could make a difference. "In mary of these cases, had one third of the unregistered Blacks voted, Mr. Reagan would not have been elected...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Preaching to the Unconverted | 2/28/1984 | See Source »

...refs also spaced out late in the first half, when Monroe Trout was fouled and was to go to the line for two shots. Duncan had already sunk one when one of the officials remembered which player he had sent to the charity stripe...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Twilight Zone | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...step that Regan and President Reagan oppose. A report of Regan's "throw away" comment went over the Dow Jones News Service wire at about 11 a.m. At the time, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 8.17 points. By the 4 p.m. closing bell, the average had sunk 25.02 points, to finish the day down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombarding Reagan's Budget | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...John Singleton Copley, there were 100 on Pollock and 200 on Picasso. The track of pioneer scholars in this field, like John Baur and Lloyd Goodrich, was hardly more beaten than Lewis and Clark's. It was as though, by general consent, all American art had been sunk in earnest provinciality until the 1940s, when abstract expressionism unburdened itself upon the world stage. Nobody believes this today. In fact, the pendulum has gone so far in the other direction that a sea piece by any Boston dauber distantly connectable to Fitz Hugh Lane will command a price that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manifest Destiny in Paint | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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