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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly the dominating figure of past appearances on Capitol Hill. In fact, he was carefully hidden from public view in the office of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. Nonetheless, there was David Stockman doing what he does best, hunching over a desk in shirtsleeves to tap out spending estimates on a pocket calculator. His typically virtuoso performance may have saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back from the Woodshed | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Smith came back to score his own goal just 82 seconds later after Ken Iselmoe retrieved a rebound of his own shot and set up Smith for a tap in from the slot...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Icemen Split Weekend Pair, Fall to Colgate, Defeat RPI | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...minutes later, defensive confusion in front of the Brown goal gave Alicia Carrillo the chance to tap a shot across the goal line and even the score at 1-1. The goal loosened the Crimson up, and a Landry drive off a Gately feed took Harvard into halftime with a 2-1 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Capture Ivies; Greeley MVP | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Learning to tap dance at 35 is like having a truck run over you every day. It's real punishment," says Steve Martin of the nine-month regimen of instruction he endured for the film Pennies from Heaven. The musical drama, scheduled for Christmas release, is based on a 1978 BBC series and not the breezy 1936 Bing Crosby picture. Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 2, 1981 | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Rivera also plans to set up a seminar to read fiction by and about the working class for the spring semester and to urge working-class students to "tap the extensive resources here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Working-Class Students | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

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