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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chief Justice called a recess, and Muhammad was taken outside and thrown in front of a truck...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Iran-a-Muk | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

With her roly-poly figure and truck-driver's tongue, she is hardly your standard-issue TV mom. She works at a plastics factory, berates her good- natured but usually out-of-work husband, and snaps impatiently at her three nattering kids. "Why are you so mean?" complains one tot who doesn't get her way. " 'Cause I hate kids," she replies, "and I'm not your real mom." Her idea of a high time is going out to dinner at a restaurant "that don't have a drive-through." Hearing that two friends have got divorced, she responds with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sharp Tongue in the Trenches: Roseanne Barr | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

With her roly- poly figure and truck- driver tongue, she is hardly a typical TV mom. But not since The Cosby Show has a television family so captured America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page December 5, 1988 | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...will be an enormous undertaking: the random drug testing of almost every airline pilot, railroad engineer and truck driver in the U.S., a total of 4 million non-Government transportation workers. Rejecting widespread concerns about the constitutionality of such a move, the Transportation Department last week announced plans to require companies and municipalities involved in the transit business to begin testing their employees in December 1989. The ; workers will be screened for marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines and phencyclidine (PCP). Said Transportation Secretary James Burnley: "The American people demand and expect a drug-free transportation system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUG TESTING: Unsafe at Any Speed | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...free trade would mean a kind of integration with America's economy that would wrest self-determination from Canadian industry. As far back as 1911, the government of Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier fell over a free-trade agreement -- an episode that gave birth to the slogan "No truck nor trade with the Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gut Issue | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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