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• August 6 -- As "Ollie-mania" continues to sweep the country, one of the most popular video-arcade games in the country is a new one called -- this is true -- "Contra.
  The way it works is, there are are two soldiers on the screen, and when you put in a quarter, it never gets to them....
• August 28 -- In the Persian Gulf, tensions mount as a U.
  S. gunboat engages in a scuffle with actor Sean Penn. -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• August 3 -- Political activist Donna Rice, in her continuing effort to avoid publicity, sells her story to ABC television.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes.
  For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U....
• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes.
  For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U....
• August 10 -- The U.S. space probe Meanderer II, after a journey of six years and many millions of mile
  passes within 400 miles of the surface of Neptune, sending back dramatic color photographs of a Delta Air Lines jet....
• Here is the problem: for many years, the Supreme Court wrestled with the issue of pornography
  until finally Associate Justice John Paul Stevens came up with the famous quotation about how he couldn't define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it....