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Caring can move forward and backward, spin around, move his right arm, and turn his head. His special effects include sirens, a "laser sound," and the theme from the television police show Hill Street Blues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Joins Cambridge Police Force | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

UNDER CLOSER scrutiny, the election results do not insure a spic-and-span state. To begin with, Roemer cannot boast of broad-based support for his administration. Because of Louisiana's backward primary system, he is entering office with only 31 percent of the popular vote, a mere 2.5 percent more than Edwards...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Louisiana Politics: Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler to a Stop | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

...little to 3 million plus less. "If we win, just say we win, that's all we ask," says Smith, who remains galled by last year's champions, particularly his old teammate Keith Hernandez. "He did his drugs here, but he apologized to New York. To me, that was backward. I think that's the problem with the Mets. They're a little backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carved Down to A Play-Off | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...with other coaching ambassadors, he began traveling the world and spreading the gospel. "Now there are good basketball players in Japan, the Philippines, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon ((a Beirut pivotman carried Syracuse to the last N.C.A.A. final)), all over Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, almost everywhere. We're not going backward; they're just coming forward. I don't think that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Newly At A Loss for Worlds | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...most important required text was by Eric Williams, the late, conservative Prime Minister of Trinidad, supplemented by an historical work by V.S. Nainaul, a political reactionary who is anathema to the Caribbean left. Only one of the required works was by a socialist, an English scholar who bent over backward to be fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Re: Confi Write-Up | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

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