Word: credit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CREDIT: TIME Diagram by Cynthia Davis...
...credit, the Brown (2-2, 1-1 Ivy) squad kept its head up and stayed in the game. After a flurry of shots, forward Jane Corcoran fed the puck to linemate Whitney Robbins, who slipped it by Harvard netminder Gillian D'Souza at 8:45. The Brown duo swapped roles two minutes later, as Corcoran knocked Robbins' centering pass by D'Souza...
Invented by Robert Cahlander and David Carroll of the Robot Aided Manufacturing Center in Red Wing, Minn., the robot has a 400-lb. arm that dispenses discs, makes change and processes credit-card purchases. Its computer brain also tracks inventory and cues up tunes for customers who punch their requests on a keyboard. The designers may franchise an army of the devices. Behind every great robot, of course, there is a human -- in this case a worker who drops by once a week to replenish the stock and collect the receipts. And maybe, says Carroll, "clean the glass with...
That he was. While Gorbachev's hands-off policy was the immediate cause of the chain reaction of liberation that has swept through Eastern Europe in the past few months, John Paul deserves much of the longer-range credit. His triumphant tour of Poland in 1979, says a Polish bishop, altered the "mentality of fear, the fear of police and tanks, of losing your job, of $ not getting promoted, of being thrown out of school, of failing to get a passport. People learned that if they ceased to fear the system, the system was helpless." Thus was born Solidarity, backed...
...today than even a few months ago to accept the best-case interpretation of what Gorbachev wants, what he represents, and what the U.S.S.R. would look like if he were to succeed in his program. At the same time, however, there is also more objective reason than before to credit the worst-case interpretation of what will happen...