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...next three or four years is bound to keep interest rates and the dollar's exchange rate high. While the economy will most likely continue to grow through the next couple of years, the deficit is undoubtedly increasing the risk that the recovery will run out of steam." He warned that another slump might come as early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surging Up from the Depths | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...plant was originally designed to supply the total energy needs of Harvard's medical area through a process called cogeneration, whereby diesel exhaust is used to make steam...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Power Plant's Cancer Risks Probed in New Hearings | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...steam and chilled water portions of the facility have supplied limited amounts of power for three years...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Power Plant's Cancer Risks Probed in New Hearings | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Reagan is unusually comfortable in the exercise of military power. His first summer in office, he told elements of the Navy's Sixth Fleet to steam into the Gulf of Sidra, which Muammar Gaddafi claims as Libyan territorial waters, and two of the fleet's F-14s promptly shot down a pair of attacking Libyan Su-22s. The rash, Soviet-supplied Libyan leader is a bête noire to the Administration: last February when Gaddafi was suspected of fomenting a coup against the pro-U.S. Sudanese regime, Washington sent four AWACS to neighboring Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing the Flag | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

Many people, particularly in parts of the Sunbelt, still like drive-ins for most of the old reasons. On a good night, families bring lawn chairs to make themselves comfortable; affectionate teen-agers still cause the windows to steam up; and good ole boys still load up their pickups with coolers of beer. Paul Bierle, a Southern California truck driver, brags that he has not patronized an indoor theater for ten years. "You can't smoke in walk-ins," he says. "You can't put your feet up, and you can't talk." Nor, he might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dark Clouds over the Drive-ins | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

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