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Carter had used his aide Hamilton Jordan to work with two secret emissaries, Argentine Businessman Hector Villalon and French Lawyer Christian Bourguet, in conducting covert negotiations with Iranian officials for freeing the Americans. The talks had often looked promising, but repeatedly failed when the erratic Khomeini refused to order that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Carter: 444 Days Of Agony | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Daily movements in interest rates have become as closely watched as baseball box scores. For three years, the cost of borrowing money has been painfully high and shockingly erratic. This summer, however, the news from the money market has been good enough to cheer about. Since July, the prime rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Way for Interest Rates? | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

The Crimson's poor serving and erratic spiking created a seemingly insurmountable obstacle during the match's initial moments, and Wheaton capitalized on Harvard's mistakes with 15-12, 15-11 victories.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Pummel Wheaton; Schreiber, Meagher Shine | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

The train once went to Istanbul, but there is no longer enough demand for that service. As it is, the v.s.O.E. is booked solidly through October, and the company has laid on a third weekly trip from London to Venice. On Sept. 1, according to Sherwood, the Orient Express will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Once and Future Train | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

For all the trouble with balky tiles, erratic engines and, on this last mission, the exasperating and puzzling $32 million loss of two jettisoned solid-propellant boosters that sank into the Atlantic Ocean, the shuttle remains a unique vehicle, an emblem of national technological excellence unlike anything in the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Once and Future Shuttle | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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