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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clearest picture of the situation was provided by officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations-affiliated organization based in Vienna. Its three top officials were allowed to fly over the site of the accident. Morris Rosen, the director of the agency's division of nuclear | safety, declared at week's end that the uncontrolled fire at the plant's No. 4 reactor was out, though the molten mass continued to smolder. He also confirmed that the Soviets were tunneling beneath the reactor in an attempt to seal off the damaged unit from below with concrete, thus protecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union More Fallout From Chernobyl | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred to Keynes' intellect as "the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brains Alone John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, stressed the Navy had yet to receive any orders to re-form a naval battle group in the central Mediterranean off Libya's coast. But they acknowledged the latest preparations were the clearest indication yet that plans were being studied for a military strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Carriers Will Stay in Mediterranean | 4/10/1986 | See Source »

Every team has gained from the league's fresh stability, but the clearest winner is a surprise. Twenty-seven home dates into this season, the six-year- old, third-place Dallas Mavericks are averaging 16,694 customers, shading the champion Los Angeles Lakers (16,571) as the biggest draw in the N.B.A. The Mavs are the hobby of a Stetsoned millionaire named Donald Carter, 52, whose mother made their money in living-room gewgaws, and whose long-standing affection for the sport is suggested by a wallet photo he carries of his wife wearing No. 37 on her old school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lone Star Whoops for Hoops | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Sackler is] the clearest, simplest and to my mind the best museum I have seen to date," said American architect Philip Johnson in a fall 1984 lecture, adding that Stirling, "had to contend with not enough money, not enough room, [and] with not enough space...

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: It's Art--for the Sake of Art | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

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