Word: greated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable. Says one of them, young Messenger Anthony Edwards of Manhattan: "You got your box, they got their box, everybody into their...
...temporal O board games! Out of the Great Depression came the great Monopoly. From the Great American Tax Revolt generated by California's Howard Jarvis, 76, and Proposition 13 has come Ax Your Tax. Players try to solve complicated tax problems like how to launder the interest paid on fictitious-name bank accounts. Jarvis, who dutifully posed with an ax and some funny money to promote the game, announced that the endorsement fee had gone to his American Tax Reduction Movement...
...great when times are bad. He doesn't panic when his team goes into a slump." Says John Schuerholz, vice president of the Kansas City Royals: "In years past I considered Weaver among the best managers in baseball. Now I think he is the best of them all. I hesitate to say that he's mellowed, really, because he's as fiery a competitor as ever. But he's matured as an individual, and he's gotten to know so much about the game. Those tremendously aggressive instincts are now tempered with a tremendous amount...
...planet has an extraordinary five-layered cloud cover, is riddled by continuous lightning bolts and scarred by a rift valley and mountain peak more grandiose than any on earth, and has totally unexpected abundances of primordial neon and argon. Their presence suggests new ideas about the nature of the great cloud of gases and dust from which the sun and planets were born...
...March another unmanned space craft called Voyager 1, traveling still farther afield, sped past giant Jupiter and its moons. From half a billion miles away, the computer-controlled robot radioed starlingly clear color pictures of the banded Jlanet and its satellites, including briliantly hued closeups of the stormy Jovian Great Red Spot that would not look out of place in a gallery of modern art. It also sent back new data about Jupiter's Jovian radiation fields and found a "hot spot" of plasma, whose temperatures reach 300 million to 400 million degrees C. It even discovered a thin...