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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feldstein said his study also differed in that he ran his findings through a computer in a test to determine the profit trend over a period of time, and substantiate his theory, while Nordhaus...

Author: By Angela M. Belgrove, | Title: Harvard Professor Surprised by Controversy Sparked by Studies of U.S. Business Profits | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...reporter got the sheep-dung story all wrong. What had happened, back in 1958, related to my then lofty position of audio-visual aide in Fairbank's famous course, "Rice Paddies." That meant that I ran the slide projector in the last ten minutes of each lecture. Fairbank would give me a box of slides he had selected and arranged; I would then show them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yaks, Yurts and Sheep Dung | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...aware that in the days before the battle at Marathon, Pheidippides was detailed to run to Sparta (approximately 150 miles) to ask for aid? He then ran back to Athens and shortly thereafter took active part in a battle that lasted several hours. Finally he was ordered to run from the site of the battle to Athens to announce the Athenian victory. If one of the modern Boston Marathon runners can match this record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Hopes. Homework aside, Carter ran the risk of irritating his fellow heads of state when he granted interviews to a flock of European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion to Poet Dylan Thomas' birthplace in Wales. The request was made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Summit at Downing Street | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...operation ran smoothly, according to Boyce, until Jan. 6, when Lee failed to find Grishin waiting for him at the Soviet embassy. Lee pitched a piece of paper through the embassy gate. Mexican police, who routinely guard the embassy, immediately seized him, apparently thinking he might have thrown a bomb. In Lee's pocket, the police allegedly found microfilmed documents from a feasibility study of an American spy communications satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Stealing the Company Store | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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