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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasonable. "A five-year statute of limitations meant we could not go back beyond 1975," Martin explained. Furthermore, he said, he was unable to establish links between the conspirators and Bethlehem's top management. Contends Martin: "A corporate fine was more appropriate." On Aug. 25, Judge Robert Sweet is expected to announce the size of that fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Caught Bribing | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...DONALD NIXON never got close enough to his presidential brother to enjoy the sweet abuse of a tongue-lashing, although once when the Nixon brothers were younger, Dick "lit into me and gave me a dressing down I'll never forget," recalls Don. "He aired all of his gripes of the past two or three years...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Than Kin, Less Than Kind | 7/29/1980 | See Source »

...forelock. Burton will make Camelot prosper, but even he, with his nimble intelligence, could scarcely impart any logic to the show. The story is a love triangle; yet, the nature of that love is never articulated. Does Queen Guenevere (Christine Ebersole) love King Arthur (Burton) for the sweet reasonableness with which he wishes to foster justice and peace? Does a surge of passion draw her to Lancelot (Richard Muenz), even though he is a charmless prig? Ebersole's Guenevere is closer to marble than to flesh, and, in any event, we never do learn what these three people feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: One Brief Tarnished Hour | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...victory has been especially sweet for Ronald Reagan because he has not had to share the credit with anyone. Ever since he fired Campaign Manager John Sears last February, Reagan has been his own boss, and who can argue with success? He breezed through most of the primaries, brushing aside his opponents without really seeming to be trying. But as a Republican strategist who backs Reagan says, "It was historical momentum rather than operational depth or skill that won it." When the going gets rough in the months ahead, Reagan will need solid work from a staff that has shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who's in Charge Here? | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

UNLIKE MANY RECENT American movies, which often leave behind the sour aftertaste of burnt pizza, cute French petit-fours such as Coup de Tete impart no flavor at all. They slide down smoothly, provincial realism and honest emotion buried beneath the sweet, slick icing of a clever plot and anti-bourgeois humor...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Pastry | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

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