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Since then, supporters of the bills have traded charges with opponents over who exactly caused the current shortage. The two largest landowners in the proposals thus leading to a new round of sparring in the traditional town-gown conflict. In the meantime, the prospect of urgent housing relief gets buried in layers of political conflict...
...source of these images was the Time Inc. Picture Collection, the largest privately owned, fully cataloged library of its kind in the world. A repository of 3.5 million photographs, with nearly 16 million more available from contact sheets and negatives, the collection houses all the pictures taken for the company's magazines and books, going back to the early 1930s. Last year the library circulated more than 95,000 prints and slides. Almost 40,000 went to TIME, the largest user of the collection, for reference or reuse; some 350 actually saw print...
...most of them not for the good, that came out of the war in Lebanon, the most dangerous is that the war let the Shi'ites out of the bottle. No one predicted that; I couldn't find it in any Israeli intelligence report. The Shi'ites, the largest community in Lebanon, were oppressed by the P.L.O. (Palestine Liberation Organization). They didn't like the struggle against the P.L.O., and they received us in the beginning as liberators. But in the last year and a half, they looked at us the way they looked at the P.L.O., as a foreign...
World automakers do not rank among big league players until they sell their cars in the U.S., the world's richest auto showroom. Last week South Korea announced its bid for a place in that market. Executives of Hyundai Motor America, a subsidiary of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerate (est. 1984 sales: $10.3 billion), said that they will begin selling cars in the U.S. this fall...
...several years. Texas Instruments and a number of other companies participate in interactive video-phone lectures with several colleges under the auspices of the University of Texas, Dallas. Stanford pipes lectures to as many as 160 nearby corporate classes. And last week Hewlett-Packard, which owns the nation's largest industrial satellite, completed a nationwide two-way, two-week TV class in computer programs designed by M.I.T. and broadcast to eight locations around the country from a San Jose, Calif., studio...