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...more than $300,000 a year on one of its subsidiaries, Chicago magazine. In addition, stations are leasing studio space to private producers, selling video cassettes of popular shows and pushing sales to foreign markets. They are even examining the possibilities, both legal and ethical, of allowing sponsors to cluster ads between programs-thus taking the "non" out of noncommercial TV. In short, they will do almost anything the law allows to make a buck and stay in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Latest Perils of PBS | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...still not absolutely convinced that it exists," Lee Hartmann, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said Monday. He added that the huge star could actually be a cluster of smaller ones too far away from the earth for observers to differentiate them...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: A Star Is Born: R136A Makes Debut | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

Further exploration of the star or cluster of stars will occur if and when the Space Shuttle--scheduled to take off in April--is put into regular use. The shuttle's telescope will be a better instrument that the satellite for observing R136A, Latham said. "It's possible that we then may be able to tell if it's really one star," he added...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: A Star Is Born: R136A Makes Debut | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

...they can not explain the incredible masses of the largest clusters. Recent research indicates, however, that the clusters might have captured the slow-moving relic neutrinos from the Big Bang and bound them in their gravitational fields. These neutrinos would then form the massive invisible halo surrounding the cluster...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Massive Neutrino Alters Conception of Universe | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

Posthostage-return attitude. An imploded word cluster that may be the result of reading too many NATO command manuals in German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haigledygook and Secretaryspeak | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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