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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where most people turn North for cheap booze, the Advent Corporation is going for cheap labor, lower taxes and elbow room. And where most come back from the Granite State the same day, Advent is setting down permanent roots...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Heading for the Hills | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...they won't have to persuade North House, because that House committee last month issued a statement criticizing the ACSR for "not performing its function of discussing the moral and social consequences of Harvard's investment policies...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Inciting An Avalanche | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...strengthen customs work in the U.S., the Government is training agents to use the Air Force's new AWAC (airborne warning and control system) planes to track small aircraft from Colombia. Last week, the AWAC plane, at 29,000 ft., spotted a twin-engined D18 moving north along the Florida coast and alerted customs and police. They seized 1,600 lbs. of Colombian pot shortly after the D18 landed near Fort Lauderdale. Says Coast Guard Commandant John Hayes: "For once we have something more sophisticated than smugglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...brought a class-action suit against all the district court judges in the state, arguing that the denial of joint custody violates the principle of due process. A decision in the case, first of its kind to go to trial, could come at any time. Oregon, Iowa, Wisconsin and North Carolina have laws authorizing joint custody, and a dozen other states, including New York, Michigan, Connecticut and California, are considering bills that would require judges to start with the presumption of joint custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: One Child, Two Homes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...hale and hearty old codger had lived to see these times, argued in his Genitocracy that this precisely was the destiny of mankind from the moment it entered on the path of technology; that even the ancient rowers, chained to the galleys, and the woodsmen of the North with their saws, and the steam engine of Stephenson with its cylinder and piston, all traced the rhythm, the shape, and the meaning of the movements of which the sex of man - that is to say, the sense of man- consists. The impersonal industry of the U.S.A., having appropriated the situational wisdoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Microchips and Men | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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