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There are some occasions, though, when the most significant force in a year's news is not a single individual but a process, and a widespread recognition by a whole society that this process is changing the course of all other processes. That is why, after weighing the ebb and flow of events around the world, TIME has decided that 1982 is the year of the computer. It would have been possible to single out as Man of the Year one of the engineers or entrepreneurs who masterminded this technological revolution, but no one person has clearly dominated those turbulent...
...atmosphere warmed me inside and out and gave me a feeling of security. I felt much better without even opening my mouth. As I sipped the tea and collected smiles and comforting glances from the people, the anger and coldness that had collected in me began to melt and ebb. At length, I ventured to tell why I had come...
...counting on his troops to show their fighting spirit when they defend their own land. So far they have done so, holding the Iranians to small victories at a huge cost in lives. But the war of attrition may only be beginning, and the will to win may ebb and flow before the fighting is over. -By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Barry Kalb/Baghdad and Raji Samghabadi/New York
Since the coalition's breakup, Schmidt's party has received a "sympathy boost." The latest Allensbach poll showed that the Social Democrats have rebounded from a low ebb of 31.4% last July to 36.8%. During the Hesse campaign, the S.P.D. plastered Free Democratic posters with red stickers denouncing their "Betrayal in Bonn." In recent speeches, Schmidt has heaped scorn on the Free Democrats, calling Genscher a Weinpanscher (someone who sells wine diluted with water). As he took the helm of a riverboat on the Rhine last week, Schmidt implied that he was glad...
...before long, the creature's life-blood began to ebb, and after a struggle he collapsed and was taken for dead. And then just after he was carted away, he was dramatically resurrected, and after uttering a few words of inspiration, he returned to the great celestial beyond...