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...outcome of the 1982 Ivy League race could hinge on the Dartmouth defense. If Yukica can construct an adequate squad from the unit that returns only one player. Dartmouth will become the team to beat...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Yale's Losses Might Not Include Ivy Title | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...companies are winning their beer battles because making and marketing the amber drink has become an enormously expensive enterprise. The most efficient way to brew beer is in huge modern breweries that can cost $250 million or more to construct and many millions of dollars more to operate. The best way to market the resulting product is by setting up a national advertising drive and an efficient, but costly nationwide distribution network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Beer's Titanic Brawl | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

Your first inclination when launching into the main part of the catalogue will be to construct a monstrous list of all the courses that seem interesting or required. That will be fun. Then when you reach about 250, throw it away and pick out four or five that meet at a civilized hour and give you a good introduction to several potential areas of concentration. Resist the temptation to get all of your Premed requirements out of the way in two semesters what they tell you, there are none for law school...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

Bechtel began life virtually as a one-man operation, when a young German rancher named Warren A. Bechtel decided in 1898 to hire himself out with his mules to help construct a railroad line through Indian territory. The company established its name nationally in 1931 by helping to lead the eight-company consortium that built the Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Master Builders from Bechtel | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...search for historical comparisons with Jubail is daunting. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, 100,000 laborers struggled for 20 years to construct the Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jubail Superproject | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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