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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, happening across a computer screen, the knot of inventors being guided by Examiner Curtin asked if she could summon up their names. Roughly 4.4 million patents have been issued, and they are slowly being fed, the latest ones first, into the Patent Office's new computers. So the inventors whose patents go back a few years, and these were the ones with Examiner Curtin, were not yet in the system. It seemed to hurt them not to get authentic Government computer proof of their achievements. "If I gave you the name of the product, could you bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: A Convention for Inventions | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Flashing two-fingered V salutes, the Druze shouted, "Victory is ours!" To cele brate the capture of the strategic crossroads of Khalde, on the coastal highway south of Beirut, one of the militiamen fed abandoned American ammunition into the vehicle's 50-cal. machine gun and fired ear-splitting bursts into the air. A few miles offshore, the menacing shape of the U.S. battleship New Jersey glided slowly past, like a big gray cat circling a bird cage. Its 16-in. guns, which had rained devastation on Druze strongholds in the Chouf Mountains the week before, were silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failure of a Flawed Policy | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Center James Richmond intercepted the first of those passes and fed fellow freshman Peter Douris just outside the crease Doris's shot bounced off goale Grant Blair's pads and onto the stick of left wing Mark Doherty who tapped...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wildcats Claw Icemen, End Crimson Dominance | 2/22/1984 | See Source »

...than in 1983. Its goal for M 1, the basic money supply, which includes mainly currency in circulation and checking accounts, will be 4% to 8%, down from 5% to 9% last year. Said David Jones, chief economist of Wall Street's Aubrey G. Lanston investment firm: "The Fed has thrown down the gauntlet to the Administration, saying, 'We will not monetize the deficit even if this is an election year.' " Volcker's resolve has dashed Wall Street's hopes that interest rates will soon fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombarding Reagan's Budget | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Yugoslavs tending drifts on the snowy hills were rewarded with candy bars. Most of the snowplows in Yugoslavia, and a few from Austria, are in Sarajevo. The rest of the country must be closed. The duty-free shop at the press center is open, but the saleswomen are fed up with stir-crazy writers. In both Serbo-Croatian and English, a warning sign reads: MARRIED. -By Tom Callahan. Reported by John Moody, B.J. Phillips and William Rademaekers/Sarajevo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snows, and Glows, of Sarajevo | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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