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Texas Select is one of at least six new brews that look and taste much like regular beer but have little or no intoxicating effect. With these lighter-than-Lite beverages, U.S. brewers are making their boldest move since the introduction of low-calorie beer in the mid-1970s. Brewers hope the new brands will put fizz back into sales, which have gone flat following strong growth in the 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft Suds | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Lighter, More Mobile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Chief of Staff Calls for Smaller, Mobile Troop Divisions | 3/15/1984 | See Source »

...year-old General also proposed that the Army adopt smaller, more moveable divisions of about 10,000 men, instead of the standard 18,000 "As a result of the lessons of Grenada, it is clear that we need lighter forces in terms of deployment," Wickham said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Chief of Staff Calls for Smaller, Mobile Troop Divisions | 3/15/1984 | See Source »

...central image of the "unaccomodated man" who ultimately, all alone, must confront the basic elements of nature and his soul. The play has been cut down, leaving only those scenes which further the plot's course of destruction. For example, the fool's part is shorn of its lighter scenes, leaving only the bitter social commentary. Thus the movie presents a Lear of pure and seemingly inevitable tragedy...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Above the Language Barrier | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...this for my wife." For all the little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around a horse-drawn hay wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid and Moscow, then I.O.C. President Lord Killanin spoke defensively about the very future of the Olympics. The question was actually posed: Should there be Olympic Games? Anyone who still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sweet Scene in Sarajevo | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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