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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blair turned away all 19 RPI shots in the second period, but the Engineers broke through for three more tallies in the final stanza. John Carter, the visitors' offensive star all evening, carried the puck most of the length of the rink before making it 4-0 at the 7:07 mark...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: The Lost Weekend: Icemen Tie, Lose | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...student must read the completed text before the computer will print it, Bossert said, adding that while this part of the program is experimental, he hopes it will "take the student paragraph to paragraph and ask questions" about the continuity between the paragraphs and sentence length...

Author: By William G. Foulkes, | Title: Expos to Offer Computerized Program | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

...together at the party. Robert Redford, 46, who still turns an eye, was the host of the $250-a-head benefit. Also present were three of the camera's best friends: Brooke Shields, 18, Cheryl Tiegs, 36, and Christie Brinkley, 28. Compared with Tiegs in a floor-length chinchilla and Brinkley in black leather, Shields in a modest pattern-made dress looked like the college freshman she is. Not that the Princetonian is always averse to putting on the glitz: recently she agreed to the use of her name on a line of platinum jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 28, 1983 | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...report from Paris sounded like a nonevent, yet scientists considered it major news. In a rare display of international comity, the 46-member General Conference on Weights and Measures unanimously redefined the meter, the world's basic unit of length.* Instead of being viewed simply as an arbitrary length, the meter will henceforth be defined in terms of another base measure, time-specifically, the distance light travels through space in 1/299,792,458 of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Measuring Up | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...physics' sacred constants, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. If in the future it is measured with greater accuracy-or, more unlikely, is found to have shifted-the length of the meter will change as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Measuring Up | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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