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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Note: Barbie freaks will want to check the ultimate authority, The Collector's Encyclopedia of Barbie Dolls and Collectables, (Collier Books/Crown Publishers...

Author: By Lizzie Leiman, | Title: Barbie Comes of Age | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...road at 4:30 or 5 every morning," one trash collector said, adding that he knew the early start violated city...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Will Ask State Help To Protect Older Tenants | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Mississippi had a somewhat more decorous race. William Winter, 56, lean and bespectacled, lost two previous gubernatorial races to more colorful and conservative candidates. This time, Winter stressed his experience as a former state legislator, state treasurer, state tax collector and Lieutenant Governor. Since Winter has contributed articles on Mississippi history to academic journals, his intellectual side was balanced with a TV commercial showing him firing a pistol on a state highway-patrol range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's See Some Teeth | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...inter agency reports and meetings have addressed the problems, but most of them are gathering dust on agency shelves. Up and down the Potomac, in fact, they're trying to sidestep the problem. Reactors and laboratories are generating hazardous materials at unprecedented rates--but nobody wants to play garbage-collector...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...daily minimum wage of $6.25. As a consequence, this wretched work has become a hereditary plum; generations of pepenadores have been born and will die in the squalid settlements built on the fringe of the heap. The shanties are often decorated with plastic flowers because, as one trash collector explains, "nothing grows here." The pepenadores consider themselves lucky to have any employment at all. Says a denizen of Sante Fe: "It may not be clean work, but it is an honest living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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