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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the last plane is delivered in 1988. Close on its heels is the successor aircraft, Northrop Corp.'s so-called Stealth bomber, supposedly even less visible to enemy defenses and better able to penetrate to targets. Plans call for producing 132 Stealth planes, with a projected price tag said to top $40 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon's Flying Edsel | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...cases before the new disciplinary body, NITWIT, several new punishments are revealed. Two students are ordered to take Organic Chemistry, three are exiled to North House and the five charged with the most serious infractions are suspended until they can invent a plausible explanation for the $25,000 price tag of the guardhouse at Johnston Gate before they will be readmitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taurus and Tea Leaves | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

MOST COMPLICATED RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTION If you think you have trouble moving, consider this dilemma: dismantling the old restaurant in Paris' Eiffel Tower (a replacement was installed), numbering the 11,000 pieces, recording them on videotape, then packing and shipping them to New Orleans, there to be reassembled. Price tag for the transplanted Le Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, which opened Dec. 12 on St. Charles Avenue: $3.3 million. Then consider what all that can do to the price of a lamb chop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Tasting The Bitter and the Sweet | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Miami Vice antics of Rivera's show highlighted concerns about the increasingly common practice of letting TV crews tag along on drug raids. A search warrant, says Judge Shipley, does not give police "permission to put the whole nation into somebody's house with TV cameras." Some police officials object that the cameras, lights and onlookers can jeopardize safety. Nor is TV merely an eavesdropper. During one raid on Rivera's show, an officer could plainly be heard to make a telling, and disturbing, inquiry: "We are still live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Live on the Vice Beat | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...nation's best-selling toy, but for kids serious about their shooting, Lazer Tag is the game to get. Out only three months and already No. 5 on the Toy Hit Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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