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When TIME first appeared on newsstands in March 1923, not even the brash, energetic 24-year-olds who had co-founded the magazine, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, could have predicted that it would spawn one of the world's largest communications empires. As Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald has noted, "Not many institutions launched 60 years ago have survived, thrived and become part of folklore...
...Tensions spawn new violence
...problem still faces the industry: home taping. A report by Warner Communications estimates that a million-selling record will spawn about 450,000 homemade copies. Overall, the industry figures that it loses $1 billion in sales annually to home tapers. A bill in Congress that would put a royalty fee on tape and recorder sales is being held up, pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Sony Betamax case on the home videotaping of television programs...
...frequently bitter two-day session merely papered over conflicts that have been brewing since 1981, when the global recession helped spawn a worldwide oil glut. The 13 member nations agreed to let OPEC's bench-mark crude-oil price stand at $34 per bbl., its level for more than a year. They also approved a 1983 production limit of 18.5 million bbl. per day. That would be about the same amount that members pumped during 1982, but it would be higher than the 17.5 million-bbl. ceiling that OPEC set for itself last March. Said a U.S. oil-company...
...concept of selecting a limited number of monuments from the long and diverse cultural tradition of Japan has a legitimate scholarly and heuristic basis. By focusing on carefully chosen masterpieces it is possible to study in some depth certain sets of circumstances--artistic, technological, social, political, and religious--which spawn major monuments in civilization. This approach has the advantage of controlling a potentially vast body of material, much of it written about with exotic, difficult terminology, by selecting exemplary temples, shrines, castles, villas and even townhouses such as the eighteenth century Kyoto residence now at the Children's Museum...