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...will homeowners continue bor rowing against the equity in their dwellings while interest rates on second mortgages reach toward, and in some states exceed, 20%? It is doubtful, but econo mists and bankers are divided. Says Mil ton Hudson, a senior vice president of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Retailing's Ho-Hum Holiday | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...earth, the plates move no more than a few inches a year, bumping, jostling and grinding against each other with incredible force. These movements can have enormous consequences. Opposing plates often lock, so that great stresses begin to build up. When the pressures become so large that they exceed even the strength of the rock, the earth fractures, frequently along "faults" where earlier breaks have occurred. Like a wound spring suddenly uncoiling, the earth releases its stored energy in shocks that may be felt far beyond the fracture. This is an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Predicting Quakes: a Shaky Art | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...Albus, head of the robotics research laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md., "is now poised on the brink of a new industrial revolution that will at least equal, if not far exceed, the first Industrial Revolution in its impact on mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...safety and violate the trust in Harvard's ability to obey safety standards that the DEQE decision represents. MATEP's safety will only really be proven when the diesels are installed and the plant is spewing noxious gases into Mission Hill backyards. If at any time those pollutants exceed safety standards, the University should not hesitate to turn off the engines and take its losses. If Harvard balsk at this possibility, the state should step...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATEP Redux | 12/3/1980 | See Source »

...Education v. Seattle University, began with a government investigation of complaints by faculty members in the university's school of nursing who said they received low salaries in violation of Title IX regulations. The university sued to stop the investigation on the grounds that the equal-pay regulations exceed the Department of Education's authority under Title...

Author: By James L. Matory, | Title: U.S. Supreme Court to Review Bar to Funds Under Title IXBar to Funds Under Title IX | 12/3/1980 | See Source »

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