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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Military intelligence sends to Moscow everything Soviet technology cannot make. They concentrate their efforts on the large number of smaller supplier firms working for major companies like Aerospatiale or British Aircraft Corp. We go after suppliers who are not so aware of our existence and try to fit together the whole picture (of a plane or a missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Defector Warns: What Fools | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...last seen in First Blood wiping out a small Western town whose citizens did not agree with his views on the historical necessity and moral value of the U.S.'s former involvement in Southeast Asia. Since that gory, not to say psychopathic, episode, Rambo has been keeping fit, courtesy of the penal system, by making little ones out of big ones in a rock quarry. But now at the gate stands his sometime mentor, Colonel Trautman of the Special Forces (Richard Crenna), offering him time off for bad behavior. There is this supersecret, supersensitive mission back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Danger: Live Moral Issues Rambo: First Blood Part II | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...Medical Institute and gave it Hughes Aircraft as its only asset. This made the company accountable only to the institute's trustees, of which Hughes was the only one. That made Hughes Aircraft far freer than publicly owned companies to limit dividends and invest its profits as it saw fit in research and development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hughes for Sale: GM Or Ford may be the buyer | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...long time, and I was in love with him. So I didn't understand where it all came from. I would hear words like slut that I hear now. It's sort of repeating itself. I was called those names when I was still a virgin. I didn't fit in and that's when I got into dancing. I shut off from all of that and I escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now: Madonna on Madonna | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...disciplinary powers are very similar to those of the Administrative Board, but with important exceptions. The differences are these: 1) The CRR has available to it more levels of severity of sanctions than does the Administrative Board, thus greater ability to fit punishment to the transgression; 2) Both the complainant and the defendant may appear before the CRR in its hearings, along with observers, and advisor, and witnesses. In Administrative Board cases, the defendant alone may appear, and then only when appealing a disciplinary requirement to withdraw. The most severe penalties available to the CRR, dismissal and expulsion, require...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On CRR | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

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