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...Carter Administration will almost certainly continue to pursue human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and curbs on arms sales. But it will now do so, Brzezinski told TIME, "with a more sober realization-which might be salutary-that the Soviets won't be benign partners." Carter's concern with what he has proudly called "global issues" has already been thoroughly institutionalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Back to Maps and Raw Power | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...hockey in school, but in well-behaved years the frozen lakes have three feet of snow on them, and so we are skiers, not skaters. I am conscious of resembling, as I skate, a bishop who has drunk too much at a garden party and is trying to appear sober. I totter along for miles, fascinated, accompanied by a dog who skates no better than I do and an assistant dog who loses control of her hindquarters when she tries to turn. We reach a cove where three boys skate in a big, shifting triangle, rattling a hockey puck across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Waiting for the Big One | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling: the CIA was spying by satellite on friendly nations like France and Israel and trying to topple the new leftist government of Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...from the point to put the Friars out front 5:13 after the opening face-off. When Miele converted a set-up from behind the Crimson net, it looked like the rout was on, but Dave Burke sent Tom Murray in alone to cut the margin in half and sober up the euphoric Friar fans and cheerleaders...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Dumped, 6-3 | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

...majority of crashes instead of the standard $200. Rates for the accident-prone rise steeply. But that is the whole idea: to shift more of the financial burden to those responsible for wrecks. Adults and adolescents alike will have an even stronger incentive to slow down and stay sober...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Premium Parity | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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