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Incumbency is proving to be a difficult obstacle for other challengers in closely watched House races. In Delaware, Democrat Tom Carper, 37, is running even with his well-financed opponent, Elise du Pont, 48, wife of the state's outgoing Governor and chemical fortune heir. Last week Carper won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Races Are Tough | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

The Kid seemed wholly removed from Dallas and the Republicans, but he had Dallas' self-assurance: "I finish what nature starts." You want to know what the week was like? It was like Hank Slikker, the gentle fellow who drove me in from the airport and who talked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me, What Was It Like? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Like more than a dozen other firms, Eagle Computer of Los Gatos staked its business on machines that are compatible with IBM's and run the same programs. Hit by an IBM lawsuit charging that Eagle copied some of its software, the company was forced to halt shipments during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad Tales off Silicon Valley | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Fingernail maintenance seems to fill the hours women once devoted to straightening stocking seams and rolling pin curls. The ladies' room crowd admires a tourist, the owner of a nail shop in California, who reveals a gold nail set with diamonds on her left ring finger.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

The Deere and AT&T plants represent the new pizazz in American manufacturing. Long U.S. industry's neglected stepchild, subordinated to finance and marketing, the process of making products is suddenly coming into its own, commanding more and more attention from company executives. Firms are pouring money into new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manufacturing Is in Flower | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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