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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an FAA feature that allows controllers to place an electronic cursor over an individual blip, press a key and see all the available aircraft data displayed on the screen. Any blip that fails to provide information has not registered a flight plan with the FAA and may be fair game for interception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Red For La Guardia, Brown for J.F.K. | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...launched its own ad rebuttal. One 30-second protax television spot opens with a scene of a crowded sidewalk, while a voice-over intones that "growth is choking Florida. Too many people. Not enough water, roads, schools." The ad concludes that "special interests will have to pay their fair share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Patience On Madison Ave. | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

...process is extraordinarily arbitrary, amockery of procedural fairness, and... Derek Bokjust doesn't have the intellectual and scholarlycapabilities to make a fair evaluation" of atenure candidate, Kennedy said...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Bok Denies Tenure For Law Professor | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...collaborator Kurt Weill was long gone when Brecht wrote this play, so director Serban commissioned hip New York composer Elizabath Swados to score Brecht's songs. Some of her past work like Runaways, has been pretty vile, but in Good Woman some of her curt, antimelodic songs are pretty fair substitutes for Weill. This is less laziness on Swados's part, I think, than the fact that Weill's music was the perfect accompaniment to Brecht's cynical, plebian lyrics...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Good Woman of Serban | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

...fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war," was vice-chairman of the Nigerian governments's comment on the policy that resulted in the death by starvation of two million people. In The Brutality of Nations, Dan Jacobs steers us away from Chief Awolowo's Machiavellian viewpoint. The more significant and shocking issue raised by the book is identified by its long subtitle: "How, in pursuit of political objectives in the Nigerian Civil War, a number of great and small nations, including Britain and the United States, worked to prevent supplies of food and medicine from...

Author: By Mitchell Berman, | Title: The Lessons of War | 5/29/1987 | See Source »

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