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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young. Why had he waited so long? Said Montalvo, with tears in his eyes: "I wanted to come out of hiding before, but only now did I think it was. safe. The Nationalists shot my brother-in-law dead, and my family told me of friends who disappeared or were shot. I had to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Mayor Who Came Out of the Cellar | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms and is the stuff of genes. As British Ethologist Richard Dawkins describes the role and drive of the genes, they "swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, manipulating it by remote control. They are in you and me; they created us body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence we are their survival machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...cause ringing in the ears, dizziness, mental confusion, stomach bleeding and, as an anticoagulant, special problems for those with blood-clotting difficulties. Not the least of its hazards is its interaction with other drugs. As the Food and Drug Administration's Dr. William Gilbertson puts it: "Aspirin is safe, effective, but must be respected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Relieving the Analgesic Headache | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...could a power system that many people thought was made fail-safe after the Northeast's great 1965 blackout plunge New York City into helpless darkness once again? It may take months of investigation to get the complete answer. But at week's end, an outline of the falling-domino sequence of failures that led to the total collapse had begun to emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: WHY THE LIGHTS WENT OUT | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...this atmosphere, the U.S. beckons as a safe haven, both for foreign companies and wealthy individuals. Today, says Rob Hazelhoff, a director of Holland's Algemene Bank Nederland, "most entrepreneurs regard the U.S. as the last bulwark of capitalism. They feel that America can hold out, and this is the main psychological factor behind the rising investment." Profit margins of U.S. corporations are now almost twice those of European firms, partly because productivity is higher. The U.S. has become something of a cheap-labor market in comparison with its European trading partners. Until the early 1970s, European labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: A Safe Haven for Frightened Funds | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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