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Dates: during 1970-1979
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North Dakota's Burlington Dam. The $117 million project on the Souris River is designed to prevent periodic flooding in parts of Minot. The reservoir would be dry most of the time, and the release of the water at flood stage could create almost as much damage to farm land and the ecology as it would prevent in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Pork Barrel | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

These liabilities have helped set the stage for an unexpectedly strong showing by Anderson's opponent, Rudy Boschwitz, 47, a lanky Republican who is the millionaire founder of Plywood Minnesota, a chain of home-improvement franchises. Boschwitz is making his first bid for public office but has been widely known to Minnesotans for years because of his firm's zany advertising campaigns. They included such one-liners as KEEP BULLFIGHTING OUT OF MINNESOTA and UNITE THE TWIN CITIES-FILL IN THE MISSISSIPPI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Revolt in the Midwest | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...feng jetted across three borders of the Soviet Union in what was seen as an attempt to bait the angry polar bear. But Hua's message was far more than simple anti-Sovietism. By proclaiming the reemergence of the People's Republic as a major actor on the international stage, he threw the ball back in the U.S. court. The question is now whether the U.S. will respond by developing a policy based on the significant Sino-U.S. ties that the PRC is attempting to create...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: Facing the Yellow Peril | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...Quite a lot in the early stages. We use improvisation in rehearsal and up to the time we set the scene. Most people seem to think we turn on the cameras and let people do what they do. That's not really true: by the time we shoot scenes, they're pretty much fixed...You might just say that using improvisation allows me to rewrite at a later stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Altman Speaks: | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...life begins and life goes on in the NBA. It promises everything and promises nothing. The stars are there as always, but they realize now that the pay is good, the stage all theirs, and The Fans something that meant more during college...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Little Hoop, Lots of Hoopla | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

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