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...tables, which met two or three times a week all spring, dealt with pensions; health, dental and disability insurance; dependent care; career development, training and tuition assistance; salary structure and administration; support staff involvement in decision making; the new personnel manual, and health, safety and affirmative action...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: A New Model for Labor | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...tense. I mean I printed out at least 24 different title pages to my essay before I was satisfied. I mean I detailed my Monday study plan down to every five minutes. And then, I suddenly felt a driving compulsion to take a bite out of my biology lab manual...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...innovative air-intake system that can sip oxygen from a single narrow throttle valve or suck it full blast from a wide-mouth intake, depending on how sharply the driver presses the pedal to the metal. Other high-tech bells and whistles include a slick six-speed computer-assisted manual transmission and a suspension system that automatically adjusts shock absorbers to the speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pussycat That Roars | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...publication called Moscow Personals. Kon's own textbook, An Introduction to Sexology, became available in the Soviet Union last year, more than a decade after it was first published in Eastern Europe. Already half a million copies of the Soviet edition are in print. An explicit sex manual, Advice to Young Couples, is a best seller at bookstalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Rehabilitating Sex | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

They are easy on the ears, a test for the fingers and a balm for the spirit. With a little imagination and manual dexterity, electronic keyboards can make otherwise struggling players feel like pros. Not like Horowitz, exactly; more like Flash Gordon auditioning for a garage combo, or one of those zoological enigmas who made spacey sounds in the Star Wars saloon. Keyboards can reproduce instrument sounds, even sample sound effects (from a rain forest to a barking dog), and turn any tin ear into a one-man band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Keys to The Kingdom | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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