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...pegeantry Wedgwood Royal Doulton Ulster Weaving Company Lloyds of London petroleum Fao crossfire sabotaged oil revenue transit fees paper packaging newsprint 1.5 billion dollars capital spending about 1 per cent 400 million dollars less expanding most oil firms big changes are need imported autos color videocassette recorders semiconductors shoe imports sulfur industry 1 million additional tons gardens and croplands by product underground economy 1 out of 4 Americans business activity...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Love, Death and Taxes | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...copy desk, is the way Cronkite wants it. Let other networks experiment with big anchor desks like airline counters, glitzy overhead lighting like a Vegas hotel lobby, or space-age backdrops of multiple TV screens-Cronkite knows the value, in maintaining listener loyalty, of what he calls the "old shoe" factor. It irritates him when young interviewers ask him how much of the broadcast he writes, as if this alone distinguishes a newsman from an announcer (his written contribution is "purely whimsical-from 0% to 50%," Cronkite says; Chancellor writes more of his). The choice and editing of stories matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: The Age of Cronkite Passes | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...analyze everything that's going on when you do a simple thing like picking up an object, it's really very complicated." Adds David Grossman, I.B.M.'s manager of automation research: "It's like trying to write down how to tie a shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...vehicles and interviewing nearly 200,000 people in the five years since the first murder, of a Leeds prostitute, in October 1975, the police are not close to an arrest. They have, however, built up a general picture of the killer; they know his blood type and shoe size and believe that he is between 30 and 50, an artisan or manual worker, powerfully built and white. Still, they cannot explain many points, including the variable intervals between killings that range from as little as three weeks to as long as 14 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The 13th Victim | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...kitchen, one for when I am 3-ft. tall, a huge countertop for when I am 6 in. and, finally, an enormous sink." The last is the scene of an apparent tragedy. There, next to the deadly garbage disposal, Pat's husband (Charles Grodin) learns, a tiny tennis shoe has been found-all that is left of his little woman. Has Kramer's life come to a grinding halt? To avoid giving away the ending, let it be said only that Pat has gone on to bigger things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1980 | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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