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Private contractors, who have been replacing sewers and pipes beneath Mill St. for five weeks, repaired the broken water main after Buildings and Grounds workers had accidently forced too much water into the pipe Friday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Water Returns | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike some of his predecessors at Defense, he has none of the arrogance or aloofness that so often offends Congress. Says one Capitol Hill aide: "It's awfully nice not to have a Secretary of Defense who puffs on a pipe and talks down at you from an intellectual perch." A senior military official at the Pentagon agrees: "Weinberger is the first good politician we have had on the third floor for quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Softly, with a Big Stick | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...giant subway-entrance staircase, complete with fluorescent "Red Line" sign on top--in itself does no violence to the work. Nothing in The Magic Flute rules out this approach. But after three hours of characters scurrying up and down the stairs and rotating the structure on its metal-pipe supports, nothing emerges from The Magic Flute to give the approach any coherence or sense either...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Singspiel in the Subway | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...asking the automobile industry to shape up, we should all remember that the fault for its current troubles lies not only with the Big Three, but with the entire nation. Our appetite for large and expensive gas-guzzlers has for too long been fed by the pipe dream of cheap gasoline prices. In fact, expectations during the '70s that oil would remain cheap stymied Detroit's efforts to sell an array of smaller models at a profit. The Japanese have shown us that we no longer possess a monopoly on technological creativity and innovation. Spurred by the Japanese example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Are Driven | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...constantly, checking vital signs and taking blood samples; monitors hooked up to patients beep incessantly. Reagan was given antibiotics to combat possible infections and pain medication to ease his moderate discomfort, more the result of the operation than the bullet injury. Dur ing the night, doctors removed the wind pipe tube that had been left in place after surgery to facilitate breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency in Room 5A | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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