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Hoyles came on to the court, conferred with Grime and told McEnroe: "You were heard by the umpire. I am satisfied with the competency of the umpire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Will Match Borg, Bad-Tempered McEnroe | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...umpire, Wing Commander George Grime, announced a penalty point for unsportsmanlike conduct. That gave Frawley the game for a 5-4 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Will Match Borg, Bad-Tempered McEnroe | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...seasonal rains have come to El Salvador, washing away the dust and grime of an unusually harsh dry season. But the ugly civil war that has racked the country for nearly a year goes on. The violence has already claimed 3,000 lives since January-more than four times the number killed in all of 1979. No one is safe. Some victims have been dragged from hospital beds and executed. Catholic priests have been brutally murdered. In March, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. Earlier this month Father Cosme Spezzotto, an Italian priest who had worked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: No Reprieve in an Ugly War | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming fiscal year. Faced with these losses, and trying to preserve a 500 fare, the Metropolitan Transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Get a Horse--or an Elephant | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...devices basically resemble the oil burners in any homeowner's basement. But to remove the sludge, the furnaces use either filters or vaporizers, which heat the fuel so that the dirt and grime drop to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Use for Gunk | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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