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With a cease-fire declaration by the Irish Republican Army a distinct probability, two I.R.A. leaders were granted temporary visas to enter the United States. The action was a rare waiver of a U.S. ban against those linked to the IRA's terrorist acts. The U.S. is also reportedly considering a major aid package for Northern Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH MOVES TOWARD PEACE PROMPT U.S. VISAS | 8/30/1994 | See Source »

While the New Yorker has recently been devoting a lot of space to coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case and female-to-male transsexuals, its readership remains demographically distinct from the National Enquirer's. There is no market in which readership of both is above their national averages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Map | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...double its membership during Stern's brief candidacy to 800, a party official told TIME Daily. "He gave us the equivalent of millions of dollars of free publicity," says Blay Tarnoff, ballot access coordinater for the Libertarians, and an ardent Stern for Guv supporter. Left unsaid was the distinct probability that the Libertarians failed to gather the number of voter signatures required for putting Stern's name on the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SO, HOW MUCH DOES HE MAKE? | 8/4/1994 | See Source »

...numbers. One of them read as follows: "Show that there exists a set A of positive integers with the following property: for any infinite set S of primes there exist positive integers m in A and n not in A each of which is a product of k distinct elements of S for some k greater than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No. 1 and Counting | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...actors. Today's typical film star -- Arnold, Jack or post-modern Keanu -- radiates danger; he's a wild guy to take a wild ride with. The nice guy is on TV: he's the genial, comfortable friend you want to invite into your home each week. They are two distinct breeds, the domesticated husband of TV and the movies' demon lover. One does the dishes, the other smashes them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Last Decent Man | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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