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...National Archives in Washington is a windowless chamber that can be entered only by a handful of Government officials with top-secret clearance. Inside Room 2W-2 is a locked steel-wire cage that safeguards a political Pandora's box: 4,000 hours of still secret tape recordings from the darkest days of Richard Nixon's presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Damaging Tales | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...President Carter's China policy the coup of the century or a peep into Pandora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...emotions, is unusually rich in opiate receptors. Thus variations in the number of receptors, or in the concentration of enkephalins?or the presence of narcotics?at these sites may affect emotions and behavior. Said Kosterlitz at the Manhattan award presentation: "The discovery of the enkephalins resembled the opening of Pandora's box, hopefully this time for the benefit of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Painkillers | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Critics of the restructuring plan have charged that a new division which consisted of the top 40 or 50 football powers in the nation might do away with the 30-95 rule, opening a financial Pandora's Box which could lead to a type of professionalization of the collegiate football ranks...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: NCAA Fun 'n Games | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...ideas. If these five groups want direct representation, let their members stand for election before the entire college community (or its designated sub-units). Or let them work to defeat candidates they deem undesirable. Otherwise, we cheapen a vital principle of democracy, encourage ethnic hostility, and open a Pandora's box which may well prove frightfully difficult to close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minorities and the Convention | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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