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...seize 7% of the U.S. market. Then, after the domestic firms started producing radials, they were hurt by their very durability. Radials, which now account for about half of all tires sold in the U.S., can be driven for 50,000 miles, or about twice as long as conventional bias-ply tires. While they cost more than bias-plys, radials do not need to be replaced as often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flat Tires | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...hostages in Iran." Cronkite's gesture is well meant, but network anchormen don't usually, and shouldn't, inject patriotic reminders into news coverage. In fact, when John Connally argued in a 1977 speech in Houston that the press has a duty to express "a candid bias" for the preservation of the free enterprise system, Cronkite sharply set him straight: "It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts." That's still good doctrine. Cronkite concedes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Turning Off the News Spigot | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Soames has recently received a barrage of criticism from both Patriotic Front wings, as well as their allies in the frontline and Commonwealth states. Critics of the British viceroy accuse him of blatant bias for authorizing the Rhodesian security forces to track down and shoot guerrillas who "unlawfully" remain outside the cease-fire camps. Claiming that 17 of his men were killed by the Rhodesians last week while trying to get to a camp, Nkomo demanded that the 1,200-man Commonwealth observer force be reinforced by 5,000 or 10,000 additional troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: Triumphant Return of an Exile | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...HOUR DREAM (CBS, Jan 26, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) Discrimination can be spelled many ways, but it usually mea sures out at only five letters: money. Those who suffer its effects almost always make less than those who do not, and the fight against bias will inevitably be won on the economic battlefield. That is what the women's movement has discovered, and that is what this tough and uncompromising TV movie is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Affairs of Hearts and Minds | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Their most frequent complaints: political bias, lack of patriotism and failure to provide students with firm moral guidance. The nine-room house the Gablers built in 1965 in Longview, Texas, is crammed with shelves of textbooks and copies of line-by-line listings of their objections and those lodged by other volunteers. They have become a clearinghouse ("The nation's largest," says Mel) for critiques written by almost anyone of textbooks, dictionaries and library books. They mail copies on request and receive contributions in return that total some $60,000 per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was Robin Just a Hood? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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