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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biological species and could even cause the annihilation of life on earth. If the "nuclear threshold" is crossed, i.e., if any country uses a nuclear weapon even on a limited scale, the further course of events would be difficult to control and the most probable result would be swift escalation. It is relatively unimportant how the "nuclear threshold" is crossed-as a result of a preventive nuclear strike or in the course of a war fought with conventional weapons, when a country is threatened with defeat, or simply as a result of an accident. In view of the above, nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price Must Be Paid | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...Eckstein challenges the common assumption that the money supply is expanding too fast. He notes that M2 and M3, two broader measures of money that include various types of savings accounts, are growing within their target ranges. The narrower M1 figures, he adds, may have been distorted by the swift flow of money into new kinds of interest-bearing checking deposits like the so-called Super-NOW accounts. "I believe," says Eckstein, "that M1 at the moment means nothing. It would be a great mistake to raise interest rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Some Real Muscle | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...girl from Nebraska who comes to Cambridge on hefty scholarship. Struggling for grades to keep her scholarship, toughing out the competition for the Crimson. Anderson asks it all in a found affair with Joel "Silver Spoons" Higgins husband of her expository writing teacher, Loretta (M A S H) Swift...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Students and Stars Share Spotlight in CBS Movie | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

That did not please Steel, who called Jenkins' swift decision "quite, quite daft." From the outset, Steel, 45, said that he would happily defer to Jenkins as the Alliance's elder statesman. Suddenly, he found himself threatened by a young politician as ambitious and well spoken as himself. Since the Liberals won more seats (17) than the S.D.P., Steel's M.P.s are already pressing for a larger say in Alliance affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: After the Week That Was | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Close to home-Cambridge, that is--two places are worth a mention Jonathan Swift's is one of the more comfortable small clubs around town maybe a little too comfortable. Be prepared for a night of standing and elbows if you don't get there early Watch out for falling beer from waitresses rushing about Old time blues, reggae, folk, and '60s rock are featured here, and Albert King, Doc Watson and Robert Hunter are scheduled for dates this summer at this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston's Smorgasbord of Sounds | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

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