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Notice: Car-pool moms entered in the U-Haul Mother-of-the-Year brake-off should complete the following literary quiz. Answers must be written in eyebrow pencil, and nuttiness counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...forms a perfect mate with a gadget to be carried by Nelson that looks like a fat belly button. NASA calls that protrusion TPAD (for trunnion pin attachment device). Nelson will attach the TPAD to the pin and then fire some of the MMU'S thrusters to brake Solar Max's rotation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Tinkering with Solar Max | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair the old ones. In Zambia and Tanzania, locomotives badly needed to haul copper and agricultural produce sit on railroad sidings because no one can fix their hydraulic-brake systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent Gone Wrong | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...year peak in relation to the West German mark. By the end of the week, a dollar was worth 8.59 francs, 1,700.25 lire and 2.8 marks. The pound cost only $1.40. The dollar's gains continued even though the U.S. Federal Reserve was selling greenbacks to brake the currency's rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What a Way to Start a Year! | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

...first payments were by relatively simple inflation, but when this reached the high levels of the late '70s the Federal Reserve decided to act. The suffering of unemployed millions resulted from this monetary brake of high interest rates. Finally, Americans took a deep breath and conserved fuel. Since 1973 Western industry has achieved a remarkable 31 percent increase in energy, efficiency, and consumption of gasoline has been cut by a comparable amount. Now the U.S. is finally climbing "out of the hole" with one of the most vigorous recoveries ever...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Risky Business | 1/6/1984 | See Source »

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