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Preparing separate listings for each cable system means, in a sense, publishing many small magazines rather than one large one. To accomplish such an elaborate task, TV-CABLE WEEK will rely on computers. Time Inc. executives estimated that start-up and development costs could total $100 million over a four-or five-year period. That would be an unprecedented magazine investment, but, Time Inc. President J. Richard Munro explained, "TV-CABLE WEEK has the potential of becoming our largest magazine both in terms of subscribers and of revenue." Time Inc. is the country's biggest magazine publisher; its current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Into the Lists | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Clark the night before and handed Reagan a four-or five-page letter spelling them out. He told Reagan that he had also drafted and had in hand a letter of resignation. To the President's surprise, however, he added, "but I don't want to resign." Haig said he would prefer to make a last try at working things out. Reagan, briefly taken aback, replied that in that case he did not want to see the letter of resignation but is would review the Secretary's protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shakeup at State | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...demand for surrogates remained strong. Keane says he has received a thousand letters from couples seeking volunteer mothers, simply because there are so few white babies available for adoption. Says he: "There's a four-or five-year wait now, if a couple is lucky enough to get on a list at all." As a result, despite potential legal problems, some have already opted for surrogate mothers. Debbie and George, a couple who came to light after Keane's publicity, say they asked a good friend to bear George's child. Debbie herself impregnated the woman with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Hiring Mothers | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...miscalculated the location of the finish line. But on three other occasions, he won that race; ten times since 1951 he has been the top money-winning rider (his lifetime total: nearly $58 million). Shoe's overall winning average comes close to one race out of every four-or 260 victories a year. What next? If he rides until he reaches Longden's retirement age of 59 and wins only 200 races a year, he will reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Runaway Winner | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Weather Bureau, a leadership council that included Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Bill Ayers, the group's theoretician and son of the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. Through members acting as couriers, the leaders kept in touch with a nationwide network of four-or five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other terrorist acts that had been cleared in advance by the Weather Bureau. Says Grathwohl: "We were all paranoid as hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: CALIFORNIA'S UNDERGROUND | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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