Word: times
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rulers of the East bloc, opening the floodgates of reform even partway seems certain to result in more than just a cleansing catharsis. If they had expected only to buy time to save their slipping grasp on power, they may soon be proved wrong. Each change begets some other unpredictable change, and as leaders in Poland, Hungary and East Germany have already discovered, suddenly brings on a whole new order. The tide is simply too irresistible...
...CREDIT: TIME Chart by Joe Lertola...
Earl Beale, a salesman at a Boston used-car lot, is a former college basketball player who did time in Leavenworth for his role in a point-shaving scandal. The fact that he is an ex-con has somehow been erased from official records. For this dispensation, Earl knows that he owes someone a favor, and when the call comes, it looks simple. All he has to do is steal a car in Rhode Island...
...July 2, 1937, an aviator took off from Papua New Guinea for Howland Island in the central Pacific. She was on a round-the-world trip when she and her twin-engine Lockheed Electra lost radio contact and vanished into legend. Since that time women have become commercial pilots, paratroopers and even astronauts. Yet the name of Amelia Earhart retains the power to intrigue. Did she assume a new identity? Was she on a secret reconnaissance mission? Did she get captured by the Japanese? Mary S. Lovell shrugs off these theories; her emphasis is on Earhart's life and accomplishments...
Researchers reported the conclusive proof of deprenyl's effect on Parkinson's in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a study at 28 U.S. and Canadian medical centers involving 800 patients, investigators found that those given deprenyl took significantly more time to reach the point where they needed levodopa than did those not receiving the drug. Based on the results, the researchers project that patients on deprenyl can wait twice as long -- about a year -- before taking levodopa...