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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think you'll agree, that the consumer has probably almost lost sight of metric," says Gerald T. Underwood, director of the Commerce Department's Office of Metric Programs, "But, I think you'll find that manufacturers who are exporting good are very much concerned and involved...
...went down, you sighed. It was miserable. One of the saddest things I ever saw, when we were flying wing on a plane that got hit, was the barber's-chair gunner in the big bubble at the very top. He was right there beside us in plain sight, beginning to go down. He just waved his hand goodbye. There was nothing you could do. You couldn't reach out to touch him. Of course, that...
When Robert Duvall falls in love with a toy doll this week in the syndicated rerun of a 21-year-old episode of The Twilight Zone called Miniature, he is transported into new dimensions not only of sight and sound but, for the first time, of color as well. As Duvall's dollhouse sweetheart comes magically to life, the set of Rod Selling's stark black-and-white classic is suddenly painted in rainbow hues...
Part of the dead weight on the Politburo is the remorselessly accumulating array of Soviet internal problems, ranging from agricultural failure to shrinking productivity to endemic corruption. Recent experience has been that East-West tensions fester when the Soviet leadership withdraws into a shell. The sight of Andrei Gromyko's familiar face in the U.S. may be a signal that the Kremlin is aware of the need for a new and healthier equilibrium...
...jarring sight of an old athlete in a new uniform is common, though these images fade with such dispatch that the players are wise not to do the same. No one pictures Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas and Bob Cousy as a Boston Brave, a San Diego Charger and a Cincinnati Royal. Joe Namath's farewell passes wobbled not in the cause of the New York Jets but on behalf of the Los Angeles Rams. The sweeping fullback of the Green Bay Packers, Jim Taylor, was swept out with the New Orleans Saints...