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...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: The Shape of Our Times | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

...submerging the closest thing it has to a rival, the Crimson claimed ten of 13 first-place finishes. More fatal to the Tigers, the acumen swept up second place in seven of those ten events in a display of bottomless depth...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Aquamen Sink Tigers, 87-26, Extend Winning Streak to 18 | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...seeking an infusion of $70 million in government export loans, but negotiations between the firm and the tightfisted Conservative administration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have erupted into a public game of chicken. Said a Thatcher spokesman last week: "This government does not regard De Lorean as a bottomless pit. You can't keep throwing good money after bad." De Lorean quickly reminded officials that his firm provides 2,600 jobs in a violence-prone and depressed section of Northern Ireland, where few corporations have ventured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ante-Up Time | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...part of the reason that health care costs so much is that the insurance principle says "we will pay whatever the usual, customary charges are all we ask is that there be evidence that the procedure or test or treatment actually been carried out." If you have a bottomless well of money from the Federal Government and it's reimbursing costs of health care that way, even if there were no inflation...you would expect utilization to keep going up and up. And that's what happened. And what the state is saying, very sensibly...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: What's Wrong With Health Care? | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

...crime rates. But I was just as surprised by the things that had not changed: the eerie desolation of a high-country road in Wyoming, the majesty of the Teton mountains, and especially the open warmth of the Westerner. I left behind me a string of meal invitations and bottomless coffee cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 15, 1980 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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