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...Secretary Gorbachev said he was now prepared for an interim agreement -- a limit of 100 LRINF missile warheads for each side, all deployed outside Europe. This was consistent with the U.S. interim proposal, although key issues remained. Thus NATO's resolve may have brought us to the point of success...
Babbitt's status as an obscure ex-Governor and outsider reminds the galleries of Jimmy Carter's standing in the spring of 1975. Carter -- like Babbitt, Gephardt and most of the others today -- bet everything on Iowa and rode that success through New Hampshire. The 1988 race resembles the one in 1976 in a number of ways. But this time the field is so splintered that Iowa and New Hampshire may produce a clutch of losers without a clear pair of one- two winners...
That was the situation in 1983 when Karl Alex Muller, a physicist at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, decided to pursue an approach to superconductivity that had met with limited success in the past. Instead of using the kind of metallic alloys that held the existing record, he turned his attention to the metallic oxides (compounds of metals and oxygen) known as ceramics. Some theorists had suggested ceramics as potential superconductors even though they were poor conductors at room temperatures. In fact, ceramics are often used as insulators-for example, on high-voltage electric- transmission lines...
...process, its power as a trend-setter is always overestimated. The 1985 Biennial was laden with East Village, post-graffiti kitsch by Kenny Scharf and others -- gaudy ephemerids who, instead of going on to further heights of success as a result of their inclusion, have shriveled in the hot wind of fashion that blew them into the Whitney in the first place. Undoubtedly, 1985 marked the nadir of the Biennial's reputation; it was the worst in memory...
Airbus' current success is all the more surprising because it was slow to get off the ground. Created in 1970, the consortium is funded by publicly and privately owned aircraft builders in France, Britain, West Germany and Spain. But it did not sell a single jet to a U.S. airline for seven years. Says Robert Kugel, an aerospace analyst at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "U.S. carriers wouldn't touch European airliners with a ten-foot pole. They had a reputation for poor quality and maintenance." That perception gradually changed. By 1987 some 360 of the medium-range A300...