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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Purists may deplore such organized programs, but most musicians welcome them. No matter how gratifying it is for its own sake, street performing remains a perpetual audition. Few itinerant musicians would turn down a club date, TV shot or record contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bands of Summer | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Bovine sex has suffered for the sake of farmers' profits ever since artificial insemination replaced the old roll in the hay. The test-tube method allows the selection of genetically superior bulls, but there has always been a little problem with the cows. Even the best breeders normally drop only one calf a year. Now Mother Nature has been beaten at her own game by a new method that enables ranchers and farmers to turn the best of their cows into instant supermoms, capable of producing whole herds of exceptionally meaty or big-milking offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Supercows | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...nuclear chess finals in Vienna were not the media-for-the-sake-of-media event that you seem to scorn. A few hundred journalists' witnessing for several millions of concerned Americans serves to reinforce the pressure of our presence among our public officials. That is not such a bad idea for potentially earth-shattering deliberations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: SALT Signing | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...serious concern" to Jerusalem over the use of the sophisticated F-15s, which were given to Israel with the proviso that they be used for defensive purposes only. Premier Menachem Begin rejected the protest, arguing that the aerial attacks on suspected terrorist positions were "only done for the sake of legitimate national defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Frightening Clash in the Skies | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...Committee, Democrat Sam Gibbons and Republican L.A. Bafalis, have blocked one measure that would have exempted produce from antidumping laws. Now it is up to Treasury to see if the case can be settled so that the U.S. will not find it has bruised relations with Mexico for the sake of a relatively small number of growers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Tomatoes | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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