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...watches him skitter off into the gloom. Then he picks up Snowdrop and, eager to speedball, heads for Peewee's shooting gallery a few blocks away. The Captain warns of dangers immediately after any buy. "Guys could be all over you in seconds ... They use ice picks and slip them into your heart like butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: Get Your 'Lucky Seven' Here | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson, voted second in the latest New England poll, saw its high ranking slip away as the Bruins slowly constructed a 4-0 halftime edge. Only some spectacular plays by goalie. Tim Pendergast and Harvard defensemen right in front of their net kept the visitors from taking a more commanding lead by the intermission, while at the other end, the Bruins repeatedly stripped the Crimson of the ball...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Laxmen Go Scoreless for Half-Hour, Drop Third Straight Ivy Contest, 10-5 | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...voluntary" import restrictions. Although Detroit is at last beginning to approach the Japanese on quality, evidence suggests that an extra twelve months will enable U.S. carmakers to become significantly more competitive on price. After ten years of mostly futile trying, Detroit continues to watch the small-car market slip away to the Japanese, who are now training their sights on the midsize and luxury end of the market as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca's Tightrope Act | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Stern said the group would also have people in the dining halls asking students to sign post cards to Andropov and Secretary of State George Schultz. "We're trying to raise people's consciousness, so they don't let this day slip by them," Stern said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Dissidents | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...Diethrich: "There is nothing more beautiful than the human heart. It's alive, and I think it's important to see it live." Worried in part that viewers might see it die, two-thirds of the stations carrying the program delayed the broadcast; most were prepared to slip in another show if the operation failed. Diethrich dismissed these fears as merely "hypothetical." The death rate during bypass surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Live from the Operating Room | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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