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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Actor George Hamilton scored his biggest film hit in the 1979 vampire spoof Love at First Bite. Now court records in Los Angeles show that Hamilton may have helped former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda bleed their country's treasury. The papers, filed in a Philippine government effort to recover more than $5 billion that the Marcoses are accused of looting from government coffers, indicate that the couple may have funneled some $12 million through the actor's bank accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAWSUITS: By George, He Had It | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...there a God? Does he bleed Big Red? Cornell thinks...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald and Michael Stankiewicz, S | Title: Jim Hofher Finally Finds Father Mike | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

...skin cancer is malignant melanoma, which sometimes emerges from an existing mole or simply appears in an area of previously unblemished skin. Melanomas are asymmetrically shaped, usually begin as mottled light brown or black blotches that eventually can turn red, white or blue in spots, become crusty and bleed. They grow rapidly, and once they have expanded to about the thickness of a dime, they have probably metastasized and become lethal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skin Cancer: The Dark Side of Worshiping the Sun | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

...there a solution to alien-smuggling that won't bleed taxpayers? Only one: Let more aliens in. Illegals now make up as much as 6% of the U.S. work force. Some immigration experts, most notably Julian Simon, a professor of business at the University of Maryland, predict that as the baby boomers age and the birthrate falls, the labor market will tighten and "employers will cry out for workers." The Kennedy-Simpson bill being considered by the House sets an annual "flexible" cap of about 630,000 legal immigrants per year, far less than the U.S. economy could absorb. Moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Last but not least, it is time to heal the wounds of war. I don't mention the physical or the mental wounds, but the moral ones. As long as this state of abnormal relations drags on, the moral wounds will bleed. It is time to sit down and talk and play and have fun. Why only hostile attitudes? When I meet the people from the State Department, their faces never smile. It is a pity. We could help you have good health and good morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: It's Time to Heal the Wounds | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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