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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieces of high-tech equipment and 400,000 technical documents. As a result, declares Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, they have cut the U.S. technological lead from ten years to as little as three. For the U.S. and its NATO allies, who rely on brains to beat brawn, on "smart weapons" to counter the larger Warsaw Pact forces, the high-tech drain is a factor of consequence in the precarious balance of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moles Who Burrow for Microchips | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

This was the period of Kern's "Princess Theater musicals," written with Wodehouse (pre-Jeeves) and Bolton. At a time when Continental operettas were all the rage, these "midget musical comedies" -- airy, brash and daringly American -- created a theatrical revolution to a ragtime beat. They set the tone and tempo on Broadway for the next decade and beyond. When the style changed, it was again Kern who reshaped it, along with Oscar Hammerstein II. Their 1927 Show Boat, with its sweeping seriousness and its near operatic transformation of blues and folk music, paved the Great White Way for Porgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Help Lovin' Those Tunes | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Industry leader American Telephone & Telegraph, which has more than 90% of long-distance business, put a 5.6% rate cut into effect. MCI Communications of Washington (1984 revenues: $2 billion) followed with a cut of up to 11% on rates starting July 1 and claimed the new fees would beat AT&T's prices by 5% to 35%. MCI's reductions would drive down the cost of a ten-minute weekend call between New York City and San Francisco to $1.71, from $1.82. Sprint, a subsidiary of Connecticut-based GTE, and Chicago's Allnet said they might cut their rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumbled Long-Distance Lines | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...million annually on advertising and gets back eight times that much in resulting fees. That kind of return, added to last week's Supreme Court decision, bodes ill for those already tired of listening to lawyer pitchmen. "The only way to sell legal ads," warns Auerbach, "is to beat the clients over the head so they scream your name in their sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Less Dignity, More Hustle | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Then she is back for her best number, carried onstage in a reclining posture by her backup dancers, looking like Madam Recamier in her salon, twirling a long rope of pearls and camping a mile a minute. "This is," she sings to a pop reggae beat, "a material world. And I am" pause "a material girl." Luxuriating in materialism, poking fun at greediness -- she is performing for adolescents who feel deprived if their cars don't have quadraphonic cassette players -- Madonna is singing that she is available to the highest bidder, then denying that. And at the end, she pulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Madonna Rocks the Land | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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