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...Silkwood's story vividly, drawing in its wake a stunning depletion of the squalid life in her southern Oklahoma town, and graphic details of routine abuses at a nuclear power plant. It successfully avoids over-romanticizing Silkwood's role as a pseudo-reactionary, instead presenting the material without a slant while filling the plot with amazing detail and brittle, yet good natured humor...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uncomplicated Power | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

...hard-line Conservative Franz Josef Strauss, the maverick leader of the Christian Democrats' Bavarian-based sister party, to make a play for the Economics Minister's portfolio. Kohl will resist such a move. But if Strauss were to succeed, Bonn's centrist policies could begin to slant to the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Count Down | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...play tennis before 7:30 in the morning. Oh, well!-it is impossible to correct all the cockeyed stories. Moreover, it is obvious your slant is friendly, so I don't mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...hour of vigorous squash or racquet ball is followed by a 70-minute workout on the Nautilus weight-training equipment and a brisk four-mile run. A hundred sit-ups on a steep slant board, then 60 leg lifts, are topped off by 45 minutes of aerobics, propelled by pulse-pounding rock music. A muscle-stretching, gut-wrenching hour of calisthenics is succeeded by a karate class or a lengthy swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Make Way for the New Spartans | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...elevators to avoid spontaneous explosions, blames OMB for the delay. In fact, all but three of 22 new safety rules proposed by OSHA have been blocked by the budget agency. "OMB has no technical knowledge," contends Thomas Seymour, OSHA's deputy director of safety standards. "They get their slant from contacts in industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Steps Forward, Two Back | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

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