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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposite number come post time, Mr. Multifles, would probably be more than happy to play under such conditions, however, Mr. Multiflex likes things high and dry, likes to close fast in the stretch as he did last week (only to get nipped at the wire), likes to fly rather than burrow. Mr. Multiflex used to be a mudder. Used to be able to run through hell and high muck. Used to be. But not anymore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Post Time | 10/9/1982 | See Source »

...acquired its major portion of the property--the Simplex area--from the old Simplex cable and Wire Company in 1970. It did not acquire the full 27-acre site until 1980, however, and it began seeking a developer last spring

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: Residents File C-port Zoning Plan | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

...been offered Cabinet posts in C.D.U. governments, he has tactfully one them all down, not wanting to become too identified with any one Chancellor. Despite frequent trips abroad, he is virtually unknown outside his own country. When Kohl visited Washington last October, West German journalists gleefully pointed out wire-service reports identifying him as Helmut "Cole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Chancellor | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...Soviet version of Gogol's greedy Inspector General. The inspector is put up in a luxurious little hotel on the picturesque banks of the Volga, especially built for the pleasure of inspectors and other snoopy officials from Moscow. It stands in a gracious park surrounded by a barbed-wire-topped fence and guarded by burly professional wrestlers. The hotel staff includes a cook who serves up the local delicacy, sterlet fish from the Volga, and a team of maids who provide sex. The high point of the visitor's tour of inspection is the traditional orgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead Souls Live Again | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...request, and so, it seems, was Perry. This Monday she hastily convened a news conference to say that she no longer would settle for impregnation; Mitchelson had spoken wrong. The end result: Mitchelson looked like a headline-grabber, not an innovative attorney, and his client looked positively flaky. Wire service reporters have taken to calling her case the "no-deposit, no-return" lawsuit. Other monikers are less subtle...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: No Return | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

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