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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truck operator, whose primary ability is transporting bodies. The coroner frequently hires hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coroners Who Miss All the Clues | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever get a gun, I'll blow your bleedin' brains out," will sob on her wedding day, "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Family Ties | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...years to buy them as condominiums--thus reducing the city's stock of affordable housing. Sponsors of 1-2-3 argue that the referendum would benefit the city by allowing more city residents to own their own homes, but opponents charge that such a change would deal a death-blow to the rent-control system...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge Rainbow Adds to City's Political Spectrum | 8/1/1989 | See Source »

WHEN Japanese voters last week dealt a critical blow to their ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), they moved their nation one step closer to maturity as an international superpower...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: End of the Status Quo in Japan | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

...know what Mort would do to those commie jerks? Blow them right out of the [same gerundive as before] water. Mort? he's just one of the greatest Americans around...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

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