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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fears about the ultimate aims of its neighbors. For example, neither he nor the academics (including Harvard Government Professor Nadav Safran) who helped him research the book call Yasir Arafat to account for his statement to Carter that "the PLO has never advocated the annihilation of Israel." A quick scan of the organization's charter, which rejects the notion that a Palestinian state can coexist with a Jewish one, would have refused this statement in spirit, if not in letter...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Hollow Optimism | 4/16/1985 | See Source »

...then things began in click for the spikers. Setter Russell Riopelle engineeerd a powerful offense, led by seniors Scott Alpert, Scan Doyle, and Captain Mohan Nadkarni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/13/1985 | See Source »

Another option is a remote-control device. It generally allows a viewer, without leaving the LaZBoy, to stop and start the tape, pause, fast-scan in forward and reverse, or watch in "double speed," which is slower than fast-scan but faster than normal. Two types are available: those connected to the VCR by a long wire and the detached, infrared devices, which are less cumbersome and more expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Decisions, Decisions | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...Tryon, however have found a more domestic purpose for the scientifically vital fern. In the spring they scan the New England woodlands for fiddlehead ferns, which the couple then eat fresh in soups and salads or freeze to enjoy year round...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Botanical Beast Or Buddy? | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...NASA's Johnson Space Center gift shop in Houston, souvenir envelopes decorated with detailed drawings of the satellite, clearly labeled PROJECT WHITECLOUD, had been on sale at $1 apiece for years. The envelopes even explained how the satellite dispensed three smaller craft in 700-mile-high orbits to scan the ocean, monitoring "shipboard radar and communications signals." It was hardly a hot seller: only about 35 had been purchased since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Security: Top-Secret Souvenirs | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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