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...another evasive maneuver, the F-14s dove to 3,000 ft. This gave the Navy flyers a tactical advantage: their radar could now look up for a clear view of the approaching targets. The less sophisticated Soviet-made radars on the Libyan craft had to contend with the clutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Reaction: The U.S. presses Libya over a nerve-gas plant | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...board of directors of U.S. English like Chavez and Cronkite, Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Alistair Cooke are hardly xenophobes. They believe that, in a land that was founded by immigrants, English is the essential unifying force. The propositions they support may be little more than useless clutter, a reassurance that the U.S. is not vulnerable to a Quebec-style bilingualism with all its attendant bitterness. Ironically, it is the debate over the ballot initiatives themselves that has created so much rancor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only English Spoken Here | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

When they tune in to the likes of G.I. Joe, Smurfs and Thundercats, young television viewers are pelted with pitches for everything from plastic aircraft carriers to presweetened cereals. To control the clutter, Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill restricting commercials to 12 min. per hr. on weekday kids' shows and to 10 1/2 min. on weekends. The measure, aimed at reimposing limits dropped by the Federal Communications Commission in 1984, also required broadcasters to air educational programs for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATION: Babes in Ad Land | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...road from Bombay's airport to the center of town extended for miles and miles through slums that would be unimaginable in the United States. Clutter was everywhere, the clutter of debris and people, an oppressive mass of oppressed people. But the taxi ignored the swarming of the bicycles and pedestrains, sped by the omnipresent shanties and hovels and zoomed to more palatable places...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Coming of Age in Bombay | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...through the clutter to identify the true choices facing voters in an election that could shape the waning years of this century. -- An interview with Dukakis: "Am I a liberal in the tradition of Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy? Yes, I am." -- A TIME poll points to the Democrats' lost opportunities. -- Diplomacy now that the cold war is over -- a campaign Essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Nov. 7. 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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