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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worthwhile energy gizmos are by and large both simple and durable. Also they save enough energy so that the homeowner can recover, or amortize, the initial expenditure-which can amount to several hundred dollars-within a reasonable time. Herewith a sampler of five of the best and most cost-effective devices now available to individual homeowners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gizmos To Save Energy | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

TIME's portfolio of promise is more a sampler of outstanding leadership than an effort to pick the 50 who obviously and definitively lead all the rest. There were too many excellent candidates to make any such specific claim; inevitably, the choices were in part subjective! Some of the 50 were picked more for potential than for present accomplishments; they are just starting out, but TIME's editors liked where they are heading. The list does not include many outstanding Americans who lead in the arts. The visionary architect, the composer, the actor, for example, may all make distinguished contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 50 Faces for America's Future | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...talked to his summit guests, the President repeatedly described his deep feelings and grave concerns. A sampler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Thoughts from Camp David | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...difference between now and 1974 is that instead of declining in unison, thus severely crippling trade, production and growth, the major nations are all at different points in the economic cycle, making a deep world downturn less likely. A sampler of conditions of the key industrial nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Threat to Global Growth | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...plane. "Everybody has to worry about something," he muses. "Some people worry about sex. With me, it's jets." Which seems fair. After 200 books on every conceivable subject, it would be surprising to see Isaac Asimov up in the air about anything. As proof, an Asimov sampler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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