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...with new sites added almost daily, one might conclude that the main characterizing idea of the past 60 years was war itself. (Who could have dreamed up the war in the Falklands?) It follows that what will have mattered most about these years is the apparent universal desire to knock each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...felt I was becoming a television person, which may be okay for some people. It got to the point where people would ask me to come do 'my act,' and I was beginning to think of it like that, too," he says. "I don't mean to knock the seminars or "That Delicate Balance," he continues. "They're the best way TV's come up with yet to explore complicated issues...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Silver Screen | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...knock on the front door was not threatening, nor was the visitor's message. "We are from the peace initiative," the voice said. "We want to talk to you about the missiles." But the U.S. soldier's young wife living in Mutlangen, West Germany, near a major U.S. Army depot, refused even to reply until her unexpected caller had departed. Moments later, when she hesitantly opened the door, she found an anti-Pershing-missile leaflet on her doorstep. "I didn't answer because I was scared," she said. "I don't know what they have against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: We Want to Liberate Ourselves | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

Sorensen predicted that before long one of the two leading candidates at the time will "knock out the other." "If Hart survives, he will be invited by the media [into the front of the race]," he added...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Sorensen Recruits for Hart Campaign | 9/21/1983 | See Source »

...their current patterns of interstate migration. Thus, say the Government researchers, California will pull farther out in front as the most populous state, with more than 30 million residents in the year 2000. The Census Bureau also believes that a denser Texas (20.7 million) and Florida (17.4 million) will knock New York, then shrunken to 15 million or so, down to fourth place in the state population rankings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prediction: Sunny Side Up | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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