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...organizations. The PAC is under the jurisdiction of Time Inc.'s business management, which has no authority over editorial policy. The editors of Time Inc.do not participate in these decisions-or know the identities of the recipients. The company's forest products subsidiaries have their own PACs: Inland Container Corp. gave $15,200 in 1981-82. Temple-Eastex $17,350. In addition, Temple-Eastex contributed $28,650 in 1981-82 to candidates for state and local office in Texas...
...October 23, 1978, a small brushfire was sighted near the Ventura Freeway in southern California on the inland side of the Santa Monica Mountains. Huge brushfires scorch this region regularly, but the five that swept through Agoura and Malibu that day and the next was a holocaust that defied previous measures. Fed by chapparal and whipped by high winds, a small fire lit by a teenage arsonist kindled into a firestorm whose heat set grasses and animals' fur ablaze a hundred yards before the flames. At 2:27 p.m.--precisely two hours and 16 minutes after the first alarm...
...alone-would pay off handsomely. They predict grain production would be boosted by as much as 30 million to 60 million metric tons a year-equivalent to 18% to 35% of the U.S.S.R.'s current crop. They also point out that the northern waters would revitalize two major inland seas, the Caspian and the Aral, whose levels have been dropping rapidly because of irrigation needs...
...flashed toward the Belgrano. Both hit their target. About 40 minutes later the stricken Belgrano disappeared from British and Argentine radar screens, the biggest casualty of the war. Indeed, it was the largest warship sunk in a naval engagement since Admiral William Halsey's attacks on the Japanese Inland...
...plans to spend $128 billion more by 1985. Housing programs alone call for $3.8 billion in new construction during the period. In addition, the government has been pushing forward with the development of an entirely new federal capital, Abuja, in Nigeria's sparsely populated central region, 300 miles inland from Lagos, the present capital. Spending for the project now runs at $2 billion a year...