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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem; it's a people problem." Contends Bill Leamer, an officer of Missouri's Sho-Me Pit Bull Club: "There's no dog that has a bigger heart. You can just feel the love coming from this dog." For those who have felt the pit bull's teeth rather than its love, that is a difficult sentiment to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over Pit Bulls | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...Lugar. Late last week, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, one of the Senate's most vehement supporters of tough sanctions, said, "I will truly listen to whatever Dick Lugar has to say on South Africa, and I think there's a reasonable prospect he will propose something with real teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Eye of the Storm | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...FIERY BATTLE, the two mothers face off in defense of their children. Mother alien rears up and snarls at Newt with her four sets of teeth as Ripley screams, "Get away from her, you bitch!" Their encounter takes the movie beyond the standard realm of good vs. evil, humanizing the conflict, and heightening its fear-inducing power...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: A Great Scare | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

Often, George resembles nothing so much as a big devoted dog. He follows Simone trustingly, dressing in clothes she buys for him, waiting for her patiently. And, every once in a while, he bares his savage teeth, ready to fight to the death to protect his master. As they cruise through the red-light district looking for Cathy, suddenly a man attacks the car. George mechanically grabs the man's head and beats it bloody against the windowframe...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: It Does da Vinci Proud | 7/15/1986 | See Source »

Locally they are known as "scraphogs," and a few wear T shirts with a cartoon of a wild boar grinding a bomb in its teeth. Just after dawn each day, about 40 gather at the hillside, pick up pails and sift through the dirt and sagebrush for rusted metal and twisted steel. They occasionally dig up the nozzle of a Polaris missile or the casing of a 1,000-lb. bomb. Under the pitiless Nevada sun, each averages 1,000 lbs. of scrap metal a day. "It's rough work," says Billy Marshall of Hawthorne, Nev. "When I started, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scraphogs Invade Hawthorne | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

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