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...eleventh-hour legislation delayed adjournment of the Arizona legislature in 1974, one committee chairman was furious at what he considered O'Connor's failure to finish up the senate's business. Said he to O'Connor: "If you were a man, I'd punch you in the mouth." Snapped the lady right back: "If you were a man, you could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...step and enjoys country music. A superb cook specializing in Mexican dishes, she, along with her husband, is a popular partygiver and -goer. While the prosperous Phoenix lawyer regales guests with Irish jokes told in a brogue, she jumps in to lift stories along, without ever stepping on the punch lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...basic skills. But how real is the progress? Bearing such nicknames and acronyms as CAT, ITBS, CTBS and METRO,* a bewildering battery of tests annually churns out statistics in "percentiles," "grade levels" or "stanines" (a scoring system based on nine that occupies only a single column on a computer punch card). Quite often, these obscure as much as they reveal. A month after New York school officials had boasted about the big jump in average test scores, parents of more than a fifth of the city's seventh-graders learned that their children would be held back a grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What Those Soaring Scores Mean | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...ninth round, Leonard mounted his attack, and a five-punch combination (along with a little help from a confused referee) gave Sugar Ray his second professional title...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: The Man Sugar Ray Fears | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

While the six twin-engine F-15s provided a protective umbrella, the specially armed F-16s screamed into their bombing runs. The lead plane fired a pair of video-guided precision "smart" bombs, to punch through predetermined spots in the domed concrete. The following aircraft launched their own explosives through the jagged holes: a dozen conventional bombs weighing 2,200 Ibs. each. After a series of shattering roars, the roof collapsed, burying the reactor's radioactive core under hundreds of tons of concrete and steel debris. Fire raged through the site. Two of the attackers, carrying cameras rather than heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack - and Fallout: Israel and Iraq | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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