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...injunctions or politicians or threats or denunciations or verbal castigations or slander, that he does not fear death." With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating. Flouting Taft-Hartley is about on the order of brushing a speck of coal dust out of the eye. "We may be harassed, fined, put in jail," says Jim Nuccetelli of Cokeburg, Pa., "some of us might even die. But we'd rather die on the surface than in the mines under that contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Work | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...other manufacturing process is quite like it. Only a single speck of dust can ruin a chip, so work must be done in "clean rooms," where the air is constantly filtered and workers are swathed in surgical-type garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: The Art of Chip Making | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate, Of Einstein's world you 've made a mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Far-Out Quasars | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Aviv, Ham Operator Gurdus sat huddled before his set.* In Bonn, a member of Schmidt's crisis group recalled later, "You could have heard a speck of dust move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Terror and Triumph at Mogadishu | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

While we're on the subject of Sunday's game, Oakland Raiders George Atkinson and Errol Mann deserve at least a pair of Spiegel gift certificates. Atkinson was a runner up to Tarkenton for Best Costume, dressing in a Spider Lockhart outfit instead of the Richard Speck-type garb that he's known and loathed...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Super Bowl, Brown Hockey Highlight Weekend Costume Party | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

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