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...struggle to stop the spread of communism and Soviet influence around the world. Whether American agents were restoring the Shah of Iran to the Peacock Throne in the '50s, organizing an invasion of Cuba in the '60s, or applying the Reagan Doctrine in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in the '80s, their real target was the Soviet Union...
...slashing guitars toward richer aural textures and even an occasional ballad. Metallica is typical of the metal bands that have renounced their raunchy roots and polished their music, if not their image. Gone are the crude lyrics and blaring wah-wah guitars that marked its sound in the mid-' 80s. Many of the tunes on Metallica could almost be called reflective, like Holier Than Thou: "Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue/ You lie so much you believe yourself/ Judge not lest you be judged yourself...
...80s left behind structural burdens that are likely to rob the U.S. of robust growth for several years. Among them: record federal deficits (the past fiscal year: $285 billion) and an orgy of overbuilding that has sent the commercial real estate industry into an out-and-out depression. The glut of empty office towers could take a decade or more to pare down. Beset by the | speculative hangover, the economy has expanded just 2.6% from 1989 through mid-1991. Economists predict that the economy will bump along at a sluggish pace of less than 3% a year through...
...think probably back in the late '70s and early '80s when Houston was contending and they put a lot of people in the Astrodome, that was about as loud as I can remember," Brennaman said. "The sound was magnified...
...anti-PC crusade is being led by the likes of Dinesh D'Souza, a former staffer at the right-wing Dartmouth Review who spent the '80s as a domestic policy analyst for the Reagan Administration...