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...Everyone who is getting old is sooner or later confronted with the sober fact that powers diminish and that one cannot carry out one's task as one used to. And then there comes a moment when it's no longer justified to continue carrying out duties. I feel that the moment has come to resign as your Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: End of a Reign | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Outside, an evening of cold beauty also seemed to diminish the inside warning. A Monument moon rode high, and the city from the Washington Monument to the Capitol dome was proudly luminescent. With luck it will stay that way. But we seem to be pushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Huck Finn and the Nitpickers | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...three U.N. demands to free the hostages. Said Vance: "The time has come for the world community to act firmly and collectively, to uphold international law and preserve international peace. If the international community fails to act when its law is flouted and its authority defied, we not only diminish the possibility for peace in this crisis; we belittle this institution of peace itself." After more than two weeks of delicate private talks by U.S. Ambassador Donald McHenry and three days of debate, the council had approved the resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Mission Impossible | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...response, AIAW delegates and many NCAA members, railled against the decision, calling it a move to squeeze the women's group out of existence. Some have branded the NCAA vote a step backward that will diminish the athletic opportunities open to women by crippling the AIAW...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Leader(S) of the Pack | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

...sharing knowledge with the public in an understandable manner. In the event this not be done--in the event that scientists maintain their currently elite posture--then evolution will take its course. Whatever small efforts now exist to inform the public will continue to deteriorate. Understanding of science will diminish. And most unfortunately, appreciatior for science will terminate. Scientists may well have the capability to unlock secrets of the universe, but no one--neither governments nor societies--will have any desire to support or tolerate such an endeavor...

Author: By Eric J. Chaisson, | Title: Exploring the Invisible: Astronomy in the 70s | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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