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...pair of glasses (mine have not been changed in four or five years and the bifocal is no longer right for my vision). This would probably cost one half of a cow or about $130. I also have two teeth badly in need of repair -- one needs a cap in order to save it and the other is in pretty bad shape also -- will probably cost two cows or about $500. Also electric bills are continuing for the poultry house and will need to be paid soon. How will the auctioneer be paid? How will you be paid? Is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Family's Bankruptcy | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...last year, continued to balk. United, which had already claimed some of Frontier's valuable gates and hangars at Stapleton in exchange for its down payment, decided to get tough. It announced that it would not buy the balance of Frontier because the grounded airline had been damaged beyond repair. Said United on Wednesday: "The airline we attempted to purchase does not exist anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Competition | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...backyard of a family friend's home two weeks ago in Westminster, Calif., he was set upon by a pit bull. Dragging the child 20 feet before his mother could intervene, the dog mauled the baby's face so badly that it may require years of plastic surgery to repair the damage. Earlier this summer, in Ramsay, Mich., a pit bull broke out of its owner's yard and wandered into a neighbor's. There it pounced on Kyle Corullo, a 20-month-old, and thrashed him about like a stuffed toy. Kyle died of a broken neck before police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over Pit Bulls | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...machine and offering it at a lower price, the compatibles have ushered in an era in which personal computers are commodities that are differentiated not by quality but by price. Indeed, true bargain hunters can even buy so-called clones, which are ultracheap compatibles that lack the service and repair guarantees that higher-priced units offer. In the past 18 months or so, many former customers of IBM have decided that they do not need to buy high-priced machines when more affordable compatibles or clones will suffice. Says Michael Geran, a computer-industry analyst for E.F. Hutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cut-Rate Computers, Get 'Em Here | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

NASA was quick to respond, noting that the Soviet shuttle has yet to fly in space and touting U.S. "capabilities in retrieval, repair and construction in space, which are well beyond anything they have done." Others point to the U.S. lead in satellite technology and the feats of America's Viking Mars landers and Voyager planetary probes. "We tend to move in leaps and bounds, and they move incrementally," says Nancy Lubin of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. "The race hasn't ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Jarring View: Are the Soviets ahead in space? | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

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