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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congratulated for focusing on the subject of the rapidly rising cost of health care. But we were disappointed that you failed to mention a Republican health insurance bill, the Dole-Danforth-Domenici proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1979 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...alto-cumulus clouds begin to cast shadows across the truck stops and red-dirt farm lands of western Oklahoma. Moore and his aide, Bill Moyer, another O.U. meteorology student, keep peering at the sky, noting the cloud peaks tilting to the southeast, indicating that jet-stream winds are active. "That's good," Moore notes, "real good." Two essential ingredients for a tornadic storm seem to be present, and just as surely moving inexorably toward a showdown. If the cold, swift-moving jet-stream wind persists and clashes with the warm, moist lower air from the south, the atmosphere will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: Chasing Twisters | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...radio announces a tornado watch for a wide corridor stretching from Abilene, Texas, to Enid, Okla. "Ha!" Moore cries, his judgment vindicated. Overhead, the underside of the clouds is heavy with moisture. Bill Moyer begins to check out the cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: Chasing Twisters | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...Airlines flying the DC-10 are losing $5 million a day because of its decertification and grounding right at the start of the peak summer travel season. If the suspension goes on long enough, many may sue McDonnell Douglas, but, again, insurance would probably cover most of the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Perils of a Planemaker | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...Government-ordered repairs. Each of the 275 planes in service has two potentially troublesome pylons, holding the wing engines, that might have to be replaced. Cost: $500,000 each. But more extensive design changes, for which the company probably has no insurance, could add to that $275 million bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Perils of a Planemaker | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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