Search Details

Word: set (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Elis had little offense throughout the day, and two first-half fumbles set up Bruin scores. It was the Blue defense that picked up the slack--middle guard Czinger's first of two blocked punts set up a touchdown...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tigers, Elis Winners in Ivy Openers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...ICCH/4 conference, might be computer-classified in the "skinny, mild-mannered, wears glasses, enthusiastic" subset of the "professor" category. He likes computers so much that he bought an array of Hewlett-Packard hardware (central processing unit, disc drive, digital tape unit, hardcopy printer, typesetter) with his own money. He set the rig up in his house, and he helps pay off the $70,000 cost by running a one-man computer typesetting business on the side. Waite's machines are on display at the conference. A Los Angeles-based colleague named David Packard has been using them to demonstrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hanover: SAS and Synclaviers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...other veteran Carter campaigners also set forth to support the President: Rosalynn and Miss Lillian. Both made forays into New Hampshire with indifferent results. Miss Lillian attended a Democratic picnic at Pulaski Park in Nashua, but she was overshadowed by stirrings of Kennedy support and by California Governor Jerry Brown, who was spending a day campaigning in the Granite State. Brown had originally intended to stay four days, but had to rush back home to keep his rambunctious Republican Lieutenant Governor, Mike Curb, from making any more trouble in the statehouse. (Brown has filed suit to restrain Curb from contravening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy: Ready, Set... | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Obviously, he does not think so. The old Rooseveltian compromise, in which Congress let the President meet emergencies, has broken down. Today, Congress demands an equal voice. Right now Schlesinger sees our constitutional system as a road map to frustration. "It may require an external shock to set it straight," he says. "It may be a major foreign policy setback, and then the public will insist that we have cohesion in Government. I just hope such a shock is not fatal. The 1980s will be a tune of severe peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Wrens and Hawks | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...there a coverup? "Sure was," said Smith, "because they didn't want it to get out that he'd been killed that way." Smith, who was promoted to captain following Floyd's killing, said he decided it was proper to set the record straight now because, of the seven men involved, only he remains alive - and the truth can no longer hurt anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Blasting a G-Man Myth | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | Next