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...criminal record -- concocted a plan to rob the home of a local man who had dealt computer parts to Tay for his small business in selling computer systems. On New Year's Eve, Tay told his parents he was going to run a quick errand, and wheeled his Christmas present, a cherry red Nissan 300ZX, out through the gates of the driveway. His "errand" was a meeting with the others from which he would never return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honor Roll Murder | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...President." To minimize the chances of Clinton's insisting on a line-by-line reassessment of his plan's assumptions, a chart titled Budget Deficit Forecasts Under PPF Policies was, according to one Clinton aide, "rounded off in a conelike fashion and rendered approximate." It was a fool's errand. Clinton stared at the chart, pointed to the cone that represented his advisers' estimate that the numbers were off by at least $24 billion (and perhaps much more) and said, "What's this?" In a nanosecond, an old debate reopened over two items Clinton is counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Moving In | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

After flunking their lie-detector tests, both were sent on a bogus errand by Pan Am to London, where it was assumed they would be arrested. But British authorities refused to even interrogate the pair. According to Leppard, Tuzcu and O'Neill were simply "scapegoats" and were never "considered serious suspects." They returned to Frankfurt that same night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...intermingling of stores and houses, the rough consistency of buildings' cornice lines and materials. They've measured the optimal distances between houses across the street and next door, figured out just what encourages walking (narrow streets, parked cars, meaningful destinations) and reckoned the outer limit of a walkable errand (a quarter mile). They have tried to discern, beyond surface style, exactly what makes deeply charming places deeply charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oldfangled New Towns | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

Future II opens with a deceptively simple errand to run. Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) wheels up to Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) in that lovable time machine (a goofily customized DeLorean) with bad news: Marty's son -- not yet even a gleam in his father's eye -- is in trouble in the year 2015, and there is just enough time to save him from a life of crime. The dauntless duo, accompanied, of course, by Marty's girlfriend Jennifer (Elizabeth Shue), must head off to give future history a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Travels with Marty | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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