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...They Pave Paradise...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: University Completes Deal to Purchase Gulf Oil Station and Lot for $750,000 | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

They journeyed to Moscow for the same reasons the first astronauts went to space, to test an alien environment and pave the way for more important missions ahead. Under these trying conditions, a team of largely unknown U.S. athletes performed creditably, though not often winningly, at Spartakiad, the Soviet Union's quadrennial games. They also learned some lessons that should pay handsome dividends when it really counts: at the 1980 Moscow Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Losing and Learning in Moscow | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...mistake in ruling against the Progressive will seriously infringe cherished First Amendment rights. A mistake in ruling against the United States could pave the way for thermonuclear annihilation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: H-Bomb Ban | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...picked up. I don't know what it means." He and others learned that the acronym stands for East Central Reliability Council, a group of utility companies. They were to learn more from Representative Gerry Studds of Massachusetts, who wrote his constituents: "Air Force to do EIS on PAVE PAWS." Translation: there was to be an environmental impact statement about a type of radar: Precision Acquisition of Vehicle Entry-Phased Array Warning System...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The State of the Language, 1978 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Because the island is south of the main river channel, the U.S. decided that the land was Mexican territory. Mexico, however, refused to accept ownership. So Williams bought the island from Mexican citizens for $400,000. By his reckoning, the 19th century Mexican treaties of Iguala and Guadalupe pave the warpath for him: they give Cherokee Indians the right to establish a nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Birth of a Nation | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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