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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American company, but investors would never know it from U.S. Steel's balance sheet. The firm last year made more than half its revenues from petroleum, a result of its 1982 purchase of Marathon Oil, and only 31% from steel. Last week, though, U.S. Steel took a giant leap back to basics. Directors approved the purchase of National Steel, the seventh-largest maker, for $575 million in cash and stock. U.S. Steel will also absorb some $460 million in long-term National debt, making the total buy-out worth $1 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Basics | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...impassioned plea reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon within the decade, Reagan last week called upon Congress to endorse another leap into the cosmos and establish a permanent space station. He unveiled the proposal just before the tenth flight of the shuttle, scheduled to lift off from Florida on Friday. A highlight of the eight-day mission will be an untethered sortie into space by two astronauts using NASA's new manned maneuvering units, which are in effect self-contained space capsules with their own steering jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Next Giant Step | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Which may account for a basic appeal of these sports: their headlong assault on the weather. Or maybe it is the controlled craziness of the events. On surfaces difficult enough to walk on upright do these people race, leap, whirl, swerve, and then add an extra unnatural measure of defiance by going airborne. Fanatics. Only a spill proves them mortal. So reckless is their attitude that, watching them, one barely believes in the danger. Then someone's momentum is shattered, and a kid lies piled up in his skis like a broken bird. Silence replaces wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here We Go Again! Winter Olympics In Sarajevo | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...recent world titleholders: Alpine Skiers Phil Mahre, Steve Mahre and Tamara McKinney, Figure Skaters Scott Hamilton, Rosalynn Sumners and Elaine Zayak, and Nordic Cross-Country Skier Bill Koch. Once the American public finds out that there is also a Nordic combined event and that it involves a 70-meter leap one day along with a 15-km mush the next, who will believe that just about the best in the world at the moment is someone from Colorado named Kerry Lynch? Vermonter Jeff Hastings, one of those ski-jumping birdmen only casually acquainted with gravity, won a World Cup event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear the Way For the U.S.A. | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...With his miniature, muscular body (5 ft. 3 in., 115 Ibs.) wrapped in a plain, spangle-free uniform, there is something of the playful otter about him. All good skaters make it look easy, but Hamilton's skating looks inevitable, as if he cannot help but spin and leap across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This One Figures To Be on Ice: Scott Hamilton | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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