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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politically acceptable to put bombs in orbit." In practice, the X-ray lasers would have to be launched from earth at the first warning of attack in a "pop-up" defense (they are in fact the only laser devices compact enough for such a defense). To get high enough fast enough, they would probably have to be shot from submarines stationed just off Soviet coastlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the High-Tech Frontier | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...huge radar facility at Krasnoyarsk in Siberia that could be used as a defensive warning system, in violation of the 1972 antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty. Richard Perle, a critic of past arms-control measures, charged last week that the U.S. has allowed the Soviets to "think they could play fast and loose with these accords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting It on the Table | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...promote and sell their wares. Tom Rush, a popular folk singer of the 1960s who started his own Night Light label in 1976, boosts his mail-order sales with ads in The New Yorker. Manhattan's Select Records gave its rap single Roxanne, Roxanne (sales: 300,000) a fast start last November by persuading music-store clerks to blast the song on their sound systems, a promotion ploy that bigger companies had overlooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Labels: Dreaming of musical gold | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...first with the new, is the biggest market for evangelical pop. Orange County's radio station KYMS started playing nothing but contemporary Christian a year ago, and is now the top-rated station in the area. "Our station offers an alternative to Prince and Madonna," says Program Director Greg Fast. "We don't play trashy lyrics or tell dirty jokes. We give you fun and good clean songs without hitting you over the head with the Bible." So successful has the 24-hour, all-Christian format been that Owner Paul Toberty is currently converting his stations in Denver and Phoenix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Lyrics for the Devil's Music | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...loved going to meets like that," he recalls. "When you're 10, you don't sit down and think, gee this is a big meet... you just get excited about it and go fast---it was great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peter Egan | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

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