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Ronald Reagan positively beamed before the audience of 1,400 scientists and businessmen at the Washington Hilton Hotel last week. Declaring that the "sky is the limit," the President pledged unprecedented federal support for private U.S. efforts to develop a suddenly glamorous new breed of materials: superconducting ceramics. The substances can convey electric currents with no loss of energy at temperatures much higher than conventional superconductors. They open the way for such marvels as levitating high-speed trains and tiny but immensely powerful computers. "The breakthroughs in superconductivity bring us to the threshold of a new age," Reagan said...
...though, that dangers are looming and that pessimism is on the rise in Europe. Said Board Member Hans Mast, senior economic adviser to the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank: "In today's climate of high real interest rates, Third World difficulties, heavy corporate debt and increased protectionism, many businessmen now share the view that a financial and economic collapse is a possibility...
Because in a world of brutal criminals and immoral businessmen, the film tells us that the only thing that can save us from our greedy, debased selves is a half-man, half-machine "cyborg" named Robocop...
...occasional prime-time crusades. Decades ago Graham pioneered a cleanliness campaign among evangelists by taking a straight salary (currently $59,100, plus housing allowance and expenses) rather than living off unaudited gifts. Graham led the way in giving control of his ministry to an independent board of businessmen and in issuing audited financial statements. Donations to pay for Graham's TV crusades and other forms of evangelism are holding about even with last year's $66.6 million...
...Graham is a member. The group insists that the boards of its ministries cannot have a majority of family members or insiders and that they must release audited financial statements.Falwell left the organization in 1983.He can at least claim to be responsible to a nine-member board of outside businessmen who serve without remuneration. One of them is Texas Wheeler-Dealer Nelson Bunker Hunt, whose family currently faces a $1.4 billion bankruptcy proceeding...