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Word: britain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave not to be believed." The main interest is coming from West Germany, where institutions and private investors have been seeking a double killing on low Wall Street prices and the cheap U.S. dollar. Merrill Lynch reports doing good business for private Arab investors from Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Britain's Prudential Assurance Co. has been a buyer in the U.S. market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wall Street's Winners and Losers | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...probably well over $400 million. But there is no way of putting a figure on his other possessions: the 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, the retreats on Antigua and Cape Cod, the town houses in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., the stables of racing horses in the U.S. and Britain or the hundreds of English and French art masterpieces that he has yet to give away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Portrait of the Donor | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Sandy Denny, 31, understated British singer-songwriter who set contemporary lyrics to music rooted in traditional folk themes; of a brain hemorrhage as a result of a fall; in Wimbledon, England. As lead vocalist for the folk-rock group Fairport Convention, Denny became Britain's top female vocalist at the end of the 1960s, respected for her quiet professionalism and musical inventiveness, then left at the peak of her popularity to form another group, Fotheringay, which floundered. After a brief reunion with Fairport, she went on to solo in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1978 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...disputes the efficiency of MLS, but for three years an increasingly bitter international argument has gone on about whose design shall be chosen as standard equipment for the world. Australia and the U.S., plus France, Germany and Britain, had all had competing designs. By last week, when technical experts from more than 60 countries gathered in Montreal for a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the struggle had degenerated into a rancorous technological dogfight between the U.S. and Britain. Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New MLS, But Whose? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Advances are also coming from noncorporate R. and D.: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently demonstrated an experimental heat-storing ceiling tile made of concrete with a core of heat-retentive salts, which is capable of providing 75% to 80% of a house's heat. In Britain, Patscenter International, a well-respected research group, has discovered a still secret way of making photovoltaic panels at a fraction of the current price; panels to power a small family house, it says, would cost about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Sun Starts to Rise on Solar | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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