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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the proposal, institutions would be charged $0.94 per cubic foot of water, while single families would be taxed at $0.81. Commercial users would pay $0.85 per cubic foot and industrial users...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Council Questions Water Plan | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...married? I have a cubic zirconia," said the drunk college student as he stumbled towards...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: We Came, We Saw, We Drank | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

...benevolent in beaux arts grandeur -- the reassurance offered by architecture that the individual is the reason for the state. And every part of it is functional: the detached facade wall of each terrace, for instance, is also a thick screen that carries the ducting needed to circulate 8 million cubic meters of conditioned air an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of a Grand Ruin, a Great Museum | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...large star that has collapsed under its own gravity and then exploded, leaving behind a spinning, tightly packed ball of neutrons. Incredible as it seems, that ball, which is more massive than the sun, is only ten miles or so in diameter and is so dense that a cubic inch would weigh 100 billion tons on earth. Its partner in the celestial dance is a white dwarf, a dying star once comparable in size and mass to the sun that has burned up its fuel and shrunk to about three times the size of the earth. But the dwarf still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Celestial Odd Couple | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...most famous invention drove millions to distraction and him to the bank. Now Erno Rubik is beyond cubic. His latest brain twister, unveiled last week in Budapest, consists of eight thin 2-in. plastic squares joined by a cunning latticework of plastic threads: "Fishing line pretty much," he says. The key to Rubik's Magic Puzzle, which he has been working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 29, 1986 | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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