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...very least, McConnell's book will inform debate about the future of manned spaceflight in the United States. It's a laboriously researched work--and a testimony to the simple truth that high technology and bureaucratic shortsightedness...

Author: By Gregory R. Bell, | Title: The Seamy Side of the Shuttle | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...retailers emphasized that automobile dealerships, the appliance industry and department stores advertise on Washington's Birthday to a greater extent than smaller retail establishments. "Most retail stores used to close for Washington's Birthday up until the 1950s. They initially used sales as a means to attract attention and inform consumers that they were open for business," says Tommi Block, a spokesman for the National Retail Merchandisers Association, an industry wide trade organization composed of 50,000 retailing firms...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: Square Sales | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...jittery melancholy to his characterization of a onetime star athlete who has become the town drunk. There is a quirky authenticity about these figures, and the landscape they inhabit, that one does not expect to find in movies whose chief business is to warm the heart, not to inform it. Hoosiers may not transcend the banality of its story line, but it does take its shot. And comes close to making the movie equivalent of a three-point play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knight-Errant Hoosiers | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Under this system well crafted remarks will be rewarded. Suppose a professor wants to inform a class of his revolutionary interpretation of the main character in a certain play as a Christ-figure. (This will happen in humanities courses every few days, so the example is a good one.) There are two ways the professor can present the information, and our machine will discriminate between them and act accordingly...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

...parts of South Africa they can terrify township residents simply by holding up boxes of matches. When they are not carrying out spontaneous attacks, they may hold kangaroo "people's courts" that are designed to intimidate the public. In a typical court session, young toughs drag the accused forward, inform him or * her of the charges and then pronounce and execute the sentence. The outcome is never in doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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