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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...priority that Andropov has repeatedly stressed, they will be able to invest more funds in new technology. In a speech to the Central Committee last month, the Soviet leader pointedly criticized plant officials who were reluctant to modernize machinery because they feared that it would cause them to miss their production quotas and force them to dismiss workers...
...York City's near miss in 1975 does not count as a default, at least technically, because the city secured moratoriums on short-term interest payments until it could again start paying its creditors. If the Big Apple had defaulted, it would have been slightly ahead of Whoops' record, at $2.4 billion...
Imagine a tiny, alien creature landing in St. Louis on a hot summer's evening. His mission: to find out what all this imperial talk of crowning a Miss Universe is about. Making his way to the wings of the stage, he turns and sees Pageant Host Bob Barker, 59. (Truth or Consequences and The Price Is Right are not in syndication on his planet yet, but the visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts...
Keezen New and Used Clothing Store has long been a Harvard tradition, and white the current owners plan to maintain that special relationship, they will miss the man who did much to forge the bond, former owner Frederick Salo who died two weeks ago of a heart attack...
...happenstance-and a poor visionary at that. On his deathbed he expected his manuscripts to be burned "without exception and preferably unread." That they were not was a betrayal of his wishes, and a permanent grant to world literature. To read him as some Slavic oracle is to miss his importance as a writer who could draw out his soul like leviathan. In Kafka's case, seeing the past was a far greater enterprise than foreseeing the future...