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...brought in with part of his abdomen hanging outside his body. He was fully conscious. With his left hand he tried to scoop his intestines back inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: Seven Days in a Small War | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...Charles J. Waidelich, the company's chairman, had been trying to outflank Pickens with an offer to pay $17 per share for a 51% majority interest in Mesa. By last week, Cities Service had received tender offers of 41% of Mesa's stock. In an effort to scoop up the rest, Waidelich boosted his offer to $21 per share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upping the Ante | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...your tits!" Most ignore the demands, but every so often a woman will clamber up onto a van and perform an awkward striptease to the cheers and jeers of the crowd below. One entrepreneur paid for her admission several times by collecting donations in the front of her scoop-neck T-shirt...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: The Infielder's View of Indy | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

...vice president who launched Video Newscasting Network last year. Madden's 200 subscribers-most of them general managers of local television stations-pay an annual subscription fee of $330 (for broadcasters) or $495 (for non-broadcasters). They receive a biweekly tape running approximately 40 minutes, containing the scoop on everything from the latest electronic equipment and last week's big trade convention to tips on new shows and interviews with movers and shakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Tips on Tape | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Rigidity," muttered Scoop, as if the word had a bad taste. "Partisan politicians, ideologues," he added with equal suspicion. "We have to make this system work, and you cannot go out and look in a book for directions. We need intellectual pragmatism with integrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: New Rules for New Problems | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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