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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arming for the '80s | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...creatures gross and squat." Nature Writer Edward Hoagland parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time t'awd bitch was up,' I said. I put my arm up her lug end to untwist her uterus ... 'If tha'll just wipe off the fly that's on my snout, Colonel,' I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Marcus Welby of the Barnyard | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...other tart-tongued TV critics -and redeems him hi the eyes of many industry honchos. "He wants TV to be better," says M.T.M. President Grant Tinker (Hill Street Blues, WKRP in Cincinnati). Explains Shales: "People who respect TV are the ones I respect. It's the ones who wipe their feet on it whom I probably write nasty things about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Terrible Tom, the TV Tiger | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

There was only one reason a Dean should write to me. I out the envelope back, unopened. I could always pretend I never got it. Or I could fake amnesia, like Joseph Cotton in that movie. A convincing case of amnesia would wipe out all traces of Janet Pressell. Then, after some artistic plastic surgery and some intensive dieting, she could emerge as Victoria de la Mandolin, tall and willowy a femme fatale on twenty continents...

Author: By Carol G. Becker, | Title: Growing Up Innocent in a Quiet Age | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

...Syrian threat to Lebanese Christians: It is a very serious threat, and we are not going to acquiesce in any attempt to wipe out the Christian minority, either in the north or in the south. If, for instance, the Syrians continued with their bombardment of open cities, this would, of course, be an attempt to obliterate [the Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assad Is Not a Fool' | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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