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...watchword as the networks prepare to unveil their new shows for the coming season. At a time when cable and home-video recorders are luring more and more viewers away from traditional network fare, the Big Three are responding by playing it safe−and nothing is safer than cops-and-robbers. Eight of the 22 new series airing this fall focus on crime fighters of one sort or another, from hard-boiled police detectives to jet-setting private eyes. With 15 shows of the same ilk returning from last season, murderers will be nabbed, drug rings busted and cars...
...Immaculate. Owned by a little old lady in Pasadena, who drove it only to the bank. Despite those chromy come-ons for used cars, trouble often lurks under the hood. An estimated 50% of used autos suffer mechanical failures within 45 days of the sale. To make car shopping safer for consumers, the Federal Trade Commission in 1981 devised a rule that ordered dealers to disclose a car's known defects on a window sticker. But last week the FTC staff relaxed its requirements...
...wall and extend the hand of fellowship." Reagan's likely Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, has long pledged to make unconditional talks with Kremlin leaders his first priority after Inauguration Day. He derided Reagan's motives: "I intend to be a President who will lead us toward a safer world from the first day I'm in office, and not from the first day I start my campaign...
...policies fail and his aides retain counsel, obliviously floats along, taking afternoon naps and leafing through old Reader's Digests for speech ideas. Reagan, Mondale told TIME last week, "is looking at the world through Rose Garden-colored glasses. For him to say that it's a safer world, that interest rates are dropping, that deficits are overestimated, is just not true." Indeed, Mondale contends that on issues such as civil rights, women's rights, arms control and the environment "there's a lot of anger out there, and Reagan doesn't understand it. Reagan...
...There have been things such as tipping over in the rapids, out up here there are automobile accidents. Undoubtedly, I'm safer there than I am in the streets of New York or Boston at night," he says, adding. "After a while it all becomes a part...