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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...installed such devices have been hassled by power companies for allegedly disrupting the company's systems with the extra electric current they generate. Talk about solar power is usually kept in the future tense, and actual application has not received the support that even farmers leaving fields bare could command...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: In Search of the Sun | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...foreign aid have fared much BY GEOFFREY MOSS worse than attempts to increase appropriations for it. Senator Hubert Humphrey's last legislative initiative was the International Development Cooperation Act, which would have assembled all foreign aid programs, for the first time, under one roof and a single planning command. The bill died last year as a result of congressional inaction that was abetted by both of the major Administration departments that would have lost power. The State Department would have forfeited control of bilateral pro grams handled by AID, and the Treasury Department would have been displaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Downs and Ups of Foreign Aid | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came too late for the youth who had expected to command the Iranian armed forces and some day the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

Exhibiting no ill effects from his recent bout with the flu, Hackett led the race for 150 yards before defending champion Brian Goodell assumed command...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Hackett Earns Silver Medal in 500 at NCAAs | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

What about the deceit and lawbreaking such enterprise requires? Brother Andrew replies that God's command to evangelize takes precedence over Marxist law. But he insists that he has never lied at the border. "If they ask me, 'Do you have any Bibles?' I'll just smile and say, 'Yes, a lot!' But I pray hard before I go that they won't ask me that question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Smugglers of the Word | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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