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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...source was 40 degrees above absolute zero (-233 degreesC), extremely cold by our standards but warm enough by interstellar | standards that it led us to think this would be an interesting object to look at." Best of all, the object, designated IRAS 16293-2422, was relatively close, making it easier to see finer detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Embryo From a Collapsing Star | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...easier to see to the bottom of the brook than to the dark cold place in the psyche where that pistol came to rest. Ernest Hemingway's books are easier to know, and love, than his life. He wrote, at his early best, a prose of powerful and brilliant simplicity. But his character was not simple. In one of his stories, he wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life." The most complicated subject that he knew was Ernest Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Quarter-Century Later, The Myth Endures | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...game progressed and fans tried to grapple with the live version of football. "We have a great deal to learn, don't we?" mused one befuddled watcher. Most of the running plays, with the thunderous exception of Perry's one-yard touchdown rumble, went unnoticed and uncheered. "It's easier to see the ball on the telly," Sean Dyer, 24, of Melton Mowbray, said, by way of explaining the crowd's curious lapses into silence. But when the ball was kicked or passed, and thus clearly visible to the untrained eye, cheers rocked the stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Londoners Try the Real Thing | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Reducing the overall trade deficit will not come any easier. U.S. Treasury officials have repeatedly pressured America's major trading partners, especially Japan and Germany, to stimulate their economies. This would bolster demand for American products and thus reduce the U.S. trade gap. But both nations are wary of taking this step. One reason is their leaders' reluctance to fuel growth for fear of igniting inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Baffling Trade Imbalance | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

Postal officials, with the help of the Veterans Administration, will make an attempt to find all the letter writers. Because they were servicemen, they will be easier to find than the addressees. So far, 26 letters have been returned to eight veterans. Another has been forwarded to a deceased veteran's son, who was easily located: he is John Bowles, a postmaster in the state of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bagging It | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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