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...owe them," McLaughlin a Bronx native says now of that game in which his squad appeared to have converted the 208 miles between here and there on foot...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: You Are Cordially Invited... | 12/15/1984 | See Source »

...troubles threatening American bankers, none is more controversial or potentially explosive than their overseas loans. Foreign borrowers, mostly governments and companies, owe U.S. banks about $350 billion. The most dangerous loans are to such economically ailing Latin American nations as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, which collectively owe U.S. banks $59 billion and have barely managed to avoid default over the past two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumbo Loans, Jumbo Risks | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...with most commentators, Ackroyd agrees that Eliot's long, unhappy marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood crucially affected his life and career. Their union combined high-strung nerves and physical complaints that seem to have made sexual relations either impossible or undesirable; the sterility in The Waste Land may owe less to the decline of the West than to domestic problems of the Eliots. But Ackroyd suggests that in many ways Vivien was a good wife, supporting her husband in his dark moods and offering solicited judgments on his manuscripts. Eliot's method of divorcing her shimmers with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Confidential Clerk | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

Both the Senate and the House Intelligence Committees are expected. to reopen their investigation of the guerrilla manual in early December. Some legislators even want to see the matter referred to the Justice Department. Says Democratic Congressman Norman Mineta of California: "The CIA and the President owe us some answers, and the inspector general's report fails to give them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skirmishes Over a Primer | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...think it's a very important one and I think it has been a long time coming. When you have a system that can have at least $100 billion that is not being collected from people who legitimately owe it-there's a flaw. [Tax reform] is a part of the whole economic problem that faces us. I think we've made a good start and this is a case now of going further with it. One thing, above all, I won't stand still for anything under the guise of reform that is just another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: An Interview with the President | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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