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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price changes being considered for the future. Bosworth frankly admits that there has been plenty of mismanagement of the price standards. Yet he insists: "The answer is not to abandon the program. We've lost a lot of time, but we've got to get a better flow of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ripping Apart the Guidelines | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Hungarian sculptor who died in 1967. His concrete wall plaques, so tersely unbeautiful and confident in their "shaped canvas" eccentricity, remind one how many of the concerns of today's nominally advanced sculpture, which presumably seems nov el to those who make it, were threshed over and done better half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: At the Meeting of the Planes | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the brand-new coach was busy proclaiming a new era on the gridiron. "I don't know how long it will take us to do it, but we will win," said Chuck Fairbanks. He had better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Power Play | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...League pitchers during his early years arid still logs hours of extra practice. Says Pirate Manager Chuck Tanner: "Sure he has the talent, but he's worked as hard as any man I've ever seen play this game to develop his ability. He's getting better every day and he hasn't even hit his prime yet. That's why five years from now, we'll look back on his M.V.P. season last year and say: 'That was just an ordinary Parker year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Plutocrat from Pittsburgh | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...reporters who recently visited a score of the nation's colleges found that campus militancy and the idea of black separatism have passed with the "Stokely generation" of committed activism. Black students, like their white counterparts, say the social issue of the moment is not making the world better, but simply making it. Observes Vivica Rosser, a University of Georgia junior: "Unless something helps them get a better job, they're not going to engage in it. People are just looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Looking Out for No. 1 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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