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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-described "liberal Democrat." Fram dropped out of Princeton University and worked in a sheet metal factory for two years before returning to earn his undergraduate degree. After graduating, he went to work for a dissident faction of the Teamsters union...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Hallowed Be Its Name | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

That expensive steel-and-sheet-metal postscript, the assembly building, shelters the newly assembled spacecraft until it is ready for loading. The job begins in a hulking concrete structure called the Payload Preparation Center, a stationary, 147-ft-high building. There, in a relatively particle-free chamber, the spy satellites and other exotic space gear to be carried aloft will be given final checks in sealed chambers. Explains Engineer O'Gorman: "If we do the job right you should be able to take a transistor radio in there and not pick up a single outside signal." This feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: New Pad for the Space Shuttle | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...rest of the weekly fact sheet listed items such as a lice outbreak in Hollis, incorrect Chem 10 grades, intramural mud wrestling and a University Health Services seminar on "Sexual Techniques...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake Bulletin | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

McGrath feared that LTV and Republic would dominate the market for sheet stainless steel and for hot-and cold-rolled carbon and alloy sheet steel, products used in automobiles, small appliances, ranges and refrigerators. Together, the companies would have become the largest domestic producer of those types of steel. In the area of stainless sheet, the new firm would have controlled almost half of U.S. production capacity. Said McGrath: "We concluded that the increased concentration would be unacceptably high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trustbusting Makes a Comeback | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...absence, a mere cave, without even primary features. It may be that Leonardo, a homosexual with a pronounced distaste for any kind of sexual act, could not bring himself to look at a vagina. "The act of coitus and the parts employed therein," he wrote on another sheet, "are so repulsive that were it not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the frenetic state of mind, nature would lose the human species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond the Skin's Frontier | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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