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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Bengals also benefited from a roughing penalty late in the third quarter against Derrick Burroughs in the end zone for which the cornerback was ejected. It came after Woods was thrown for a three-yard loss and gave Cincinnati a first-and-goal at the 4.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bengals Dance Past Bills, 21-10 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

The executives who bought Nu-kote also felt ignored by their corporate parent. After the 1986 merger of the Burroughs and Sperry computer companies that produced Unisys, corporate headquarters decreed in a confidential memo that "ancillary" units would be put on the auction block. Reinhold Tischler, then president of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Managers Are Owners | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

This is not the first time the FDA has unveiled a streamlined approval process. In 1982 the agency announced several timesaving steps, including a call for better communications between the FDA and manufacturers. Last year, after vociferous protests from people suffering from AIDS, the agency established a fast track for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Red Tape to Save Lives | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

"We are still harvesting the fruits of what they determined almost 40 years ago." So said a Nobel official in Stockholm last week of the two Americans who won the prize for medicine for their pioneering work in drug therapy. It was an uncommon break with tradition: the Nobel committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Tales Of Patience and Triumph | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Icastic imagery can be found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: Re: 20th Century Literature | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

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