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...million Shi'ite Muslims, who comprise 93% of the population. A longtime opponent of the Shah, Khomeini was exiled in 1963 following violent demonstrations against the Shah's land reforms. Two weeks ago, he was expelled from Iraq, where he had kept his headquarters and served as a catalyst to the opposition against the Shah. He is now temporarily residing in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Survival | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Germany has been a focus for innovation ever since the postwar years, when Darmstadt became an explosive forum for young composers. IRCAM clearly means to be the new Darmstadt: it has the facilities provided by a huge 59.2 million franc allocation, and in Pierre Boulez, 53, it has the catalyst to at tract the top talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Night the Walls Moved | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

EPEA's latest project was a feasibility study on the re-opening, under community and worker control, of the shut-down Youngstown, Ohio, steel mill. Alperovitz's analysis of the much-ballyhoed "steel crisis" last year shows that corporate greed was the core of the problem, the catalyst for throwing Youngstown out of work. Youngstown Sheet and Tube, locally-owned and highly-profitable in the '60s, was 1969's Ripe Takeover of the Year. Lykes Steamship Company, based in New Orleans and one-seventh the size of Youngstown, borrowed the buy-out capital from Wall Street and elsewhere, using Youngstown...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Hey, Good Lookin', Whatcha Got Cookin'? | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

...century, they were rediscovered in a New York museum in 1967. After studying them, various Mormon scholars have concluded that they were not nearly ancient enough to be Abraham's and further, that the scrolls might not be an authentic translation after all, but instead might have provided the "catalyst" that fired Smith's imagination and opened him to direct revelations about Abraham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormonism Enters a New Era | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Blair should know. Three years ago, before Jackson began his ministry to education, she was already requiring the teacher-parent cooperation that has been espoused by EXCEL. In other Chicago schools, principals have simply folded Jackson into their own plans, and he serves as a willing catalyst. Without the help of EXCEL, a teacher at all-black Marshall High School started an interschool academic Olympics on a small basis a year ago. This spring, 20,000 students from eight high schools competed. In Detroit, ten students at Pelham Junior High, once considered a problem school, went to Louisville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Excel in School | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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