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...prime weapon of last week's raid was an advanced version of the F-111 fitted with a special electronics navigation and targeting pod known as Pave Tack. Developed by Ford Aerospace & Communications and first delivered to the Air Force less than six years ago, the pod fits in the weapons bay of the F- 111 and allows the pilot to find his target in total darkness while moving at very high speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lethal Video Game | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, other antiapartheid activists took a less confrontational tack. On Easter Sunday a conference of 1,500 black teachers, parents and students decided against a national school boycott. Instead, the group urged students who had engaged in sporadic local boycotts to return to their classrooms and subvert the school system from within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Breaking Rules | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...dear reader, life is like a bowl of cherries: it sucks, and then you die. Or something like that. Let me try another tack. Life is like time, which heals all wounds. Life is what happens when you're making other plans, * it's correlated significantly with liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's a dog's life and the cat's meow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Editors: | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...confess I am at a loss for a collegiate tack of equal scope and vision....I hope that, in view of our long-standing friendship despite disagreement, you will not be offended by my imitation. It is, after all, a kind of tribute...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Platonic Dialogue? | 11/19/1985 | See Source »

...devising their Planet X model, Whitmire and fellow Louisiana Astrophysicist John Matese took an entirely different tack, determining the nature and orbit of a planet that would loose rains of comets at the necessary intervals. The result of their calculations: a planet with an orbital plane that slowly rotates around the sun, completing its cycle once every 56 million years. Twice during that cycle, every 28 million years, Planet X's orbit carries it through a disk of comets lying just beyond Neptune, dislodging many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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