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...arena of the next industrial revolution. The Center for Space Policy in Cambridge, Mass., predicts that by the year 2000 space industries could annually produce $27 billion in Pharmaceuticals to combat cancer and emphysema, $3.1 billion in gallium arsenide semiconductors for electronics, and $11.5 billion worth of incredibly pure glass for optical purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Business Heads for Zero Gravity | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...heaving and panting sex in the new movies-too explicit. He preferred the way Ernst Lubitsch had handled the subject, by hint and suggestion-the hand of a bride dropping her nightgown outside the bridal-chamber door, then the door closing, leaving the rest to imagination. This conversation seemed pure entertainment. But Ceylon was important: it holds the harbor of Trincomalee that we want to use in case of war. Madame Jayewardene left, swathed in a friendship that might be essential to policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: Campaign Snapshots: Crushed Geraniums and Gay Caucuses | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...process is so complicated and expensive. (The U.S. dollar has proved less sturdy than the sandstone: it has already cost the Federal Government more money-$283,000-to repaint the grand old mansion than to build the place.) One other secret. The White House is not going to be pure white. Scouten wanted a paint that would dazzle the eye in the sun and yet glow with a mellow gold in the night lights. He found it among Duron's 1,000 shades. It is called Whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Whisper of the White Walls | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people being persecuted by Mogul warlords, Gobind formed a fierce fraternity of "warriors of God" known as the Khalsa (Pure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions of Punjab | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

Verbalized ideas only encumber these primal parables. The singular glory of Sankai Juku is that it achieves almost pure metaphor. It is not like anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Journey Without Maps | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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