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...when it was learned that Haig, without properly consulting other Cabinet members, had given the French tacit approval to sell 600,000 tons of wheat to the Soviets. The White House attempted to play down the incident in the hope that it would blow over, but talk continued to float around Washington that Haig might resign, and that the White House was already looking for a successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business as Usual - Almost | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...MEDLEY RELAY 1) U. of Texas (Clay Britt, Scott Spann, William Paulus, Kris (Kirchner) 3:12 93 2) S.M.U. 3:14 65 3) U.C.L.A. 3:15 01 400-yd. INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY 1) Vassallo, Jesse American Record Miami 3:48 16 2) Reld, Cam Arizona St 3:51 74 3) Float, Jeff U.S.C. 3:51 81 200-yd. FREESTYLE 1) Gaines, Ambrose Pool Record Auburn 1:33 91 2) Larton, David Florida 1:36 33 3) Cavanaugh, Chrts U.S.C. 1:36 48 100-yd. BUTTERFLY 1) Spann, Scott American Record Texas 0:47 22 2) Arvidssom, Par California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

Cambridge city manager James L. Sullivan told the City Council last night that he would ask it to approve a bond issue later this month to fund school and hospital renovations, but added that he would not actually float the bond until the "market had gotten over Proposition...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City May Float Bond for Construction | 3/10/1981 | See Source »

Almost all of E. coli's 4,000 genes are located in a single circular chromosome. But Cohen had isolated some bits of genetic material that float freely in the bacterium outside this main genetic repository. These bits of genetic "small change" are known as plasmids. A plasmid contains as few as three or four genes linked in a small circle, yet it sometimes is crucial to bacterial survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Life In the Lab | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...twisting, knotted, tangled-sprout upward from the floor or hang in clusters from the ceiling. They proliferate like brain coral, elkhorn, lacy underwater fans; the wall beyond them dissolves into patches and drifts of submarine color. It is the octopus' garden, and walking through it one seems to float. Such an image could become excruciatingly kitschy (one cutout angelfish would do it), but what preserves the balance and tightness of Pfaff's work is her daring, uninhibited sense of abstract form. Those squiggles and meshes, bits of screening, Mylar and Day-Glo plastic work together beautifully as aerial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quirks, Clamors and Variety | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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