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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which can cost several hundred dollars in the U.S., for as little as $1.50 each. During a period of nearly two years, from early 1986 to late 1987, scores of Americans -- most of them students and backpackers -- paraded through the small carpeted store, snapping up cut-rate disks for use on their computers back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: You Must Be Punished | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Stealth bomber and the MX. Bush reiterated his charge that Dukakis was soft on defense. In response, Dukakis doffed a helmet and rode in an M1 tank. In a speech in Chicago, Dukakis conveyed a conservative caution about Gorbachev's reforms and said the U.S. should be prepared to use economic incentives to induce less Soviet repression and international mischief making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...years that followed, the Soviets continued to push, and the U.S. looked for ways to exert counterpressure. The Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 was a vow to use American military force against Communist aggression in the Middle East. After Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, U.S. policymakers dusted off the 136-year-old Monroe Doctrine, which warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. (The original version, appropriately, had been occasioned in part by concern over czarist claims on territory along the Pacific coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...told, the show's aversion to controversy, or even issues, is more spirit-crushing than a mid-afternoon look at the Jerry Lewis telethon. One redeeming feature: you actually get to hear them use "USA" as an adjective. (As in, "USA" mah jong players are gearing up for another exciting season...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Survey Says: Tuneout, USA | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

...those who kill during a drug-related crime, the legislation contains legal procedures designed to permit use of the federal death penalty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Passes Strict Anti-Drug Bill | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

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