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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsidy coming from general tax revenues. Small wonder that the most prosperous Medicare recipients, largely protected by private health insurance, rebelled against being singled out to aid the less fortunate. That responsibility should rest with all taxpayers. Despite the phony fixation on fiscal gimmicks, broad-based taxation remains the fairest way to fund federal programs. It is a principle that Congress and the White House ignore at their peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invitation To Catastrophe | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

After we saw that The Crimson had published a full-page advertisement by Eastern Airlines asking readers to fly "the fairest fare in the air" for only $29--a substantial discount from the pre-strike cost--we, the undersigned, decided this was one of those times...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: The Buck Stops Here | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

...Gibbs ran the fairest team in the NFL. There were no superstars, no glitzy air attack or fancy 10-man blitzes. Gibbs just coached...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Lost Faith: Gibbs and God | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...life. In my case, I'm a conservative: don't erode out the private sector, have the Federal Government stay contained but still responsive in certain areas. When I say I'll never apologize for America, I really believe that. And I believe that we are the most decent, fairest, most honorable country in the world. We've got to remain the strongest, and we have to be able to do a disproportionate amount for freedom around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans I've Been Underestimated | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...calmed. "I like to be tested," he said, after a Pan Am record throw of 253 ft. 5 in. "I like things fair." From the tiny Utah archer Denise Parker, 13, who won a gold medal, to the statuesque Costa Rican swimmer Silvia Poll, 16, teenage girls were the fairest of them all. The daughter of a German businessman who made his way to Costa Rica through Nicaragua, Poll is the biggest (6 ft. 3 in.), blondest and best freestyler in all of Central America. She won a fistful of her country's inaugural medals, including three golds, and wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heavy Harps and Pan Am Heroes | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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