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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Executive free of nearly all constraint by the other two branches of Government. So much the worse that the ruling was written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the man Reagan had chosen for the court's top job. "I'm sure someone ((in the Administration)) is thinking the word ingratitude," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. Asked about the ruling, Reagan only shrugged. "Nothing's changed," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slam-Dunk Decision | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...with the Pacific Ocean, then the house band at Gazzarri's nightclub on Sunset Strip. He began taking acting classes to improve his show. "I started acting to learn how to become a better singer," he says. "Then the whole thing switched on me. I discovered that the spoken word is easier to project than the sung word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Burning With Passion | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

This is the way some have pictured Blacks this year. They are said to be following the Rev. Jesse Jackson blindly, waiting on his every word. And that eventually, they too will be led to the shed to die a Republican death...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: The Lesser of Two Evils | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

Bizarre might be the word to describe the success of Dorf on Golf, which, with sales of more than 150,000, is one of the surprise hits of the home-video field. A takeoff on the multitude of golf instructional tapes, it features Conway standing on his knees to appear like a midget and doing a slow burn through a feeble series of slapstick gags. A newly released sequel, Dorf and the First Games of Mt. Olympus, has even less point or wit, as the character participates in the hurdles, pole vault and other Olympic events with the help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Freaks, Dorfs and Betsy Wetsy | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...knew it was coming," said Jorge Rosales, a press officer at the Nicaraguan Resistance headquarters in Miami last week. Word had just leaked that the contras plan to lay off many, if not all, of their civilian employees. "Everybody knows there has been a negative vote in Congress," said Rosales, referring to the bleak prospects for more U.S. aid to back the contra war effort against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Next Step: Pink Slips | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

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