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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspection program for Denver and other cities along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Last year the emissions standards were tightened further. Many cars simply cannot pass these restrictions without time-consuming and often costly adjustments, and the inconvenience and expense thus make such a program a ripe target for disgruntled comments and community...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Cleaning Up the Brown Cloud | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

With Harvard up in the closing minutes, Delaney Smith had Duncan and center Beth Chandler--the Crimson's big power players--on the bench, giving the Green a major height advantage. But Dartmouth failed to force the ball inside and capitalize, instead shooting off-target outside shots...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women Cagers Shock Green, 72-67; Crimson Nabs Ivy League Opener | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

Talk about rip-offs. Even the most hardened residents of Detroit's crime- ridden East Side have been stunned by the latest target of some enterprising robbers: aluminum siding. The off-the-wall trend began last year, when siding suddenly began disappearing from abandoned houses around the neighborhood. More recently, aluminum rustlers, emboldened by the local cops' relaxed attitude toward the thefts, have taken to prying off the siding from the garages of occupied homes. Even lawn chairs are no longer safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: This Crime Is Off the Wall | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...down. Lederman calculates that a single neutrino has only a fifty-fifty chance of being deflected when streaming through 100 million miles of solid steel. The young physicists used the powerful accelerator in Brookhaven, L.I., to produce and aim a flood of protons at a beryllium metal target. The stupendous collisions of protons slamming into the barrier shattered atomic nuclei, releasing new particles, including neutrinos. The particles then hit a wall of steel that absorbed all but a single beam, which carried billions of neutrinos into a + detector. Studying the debris at 3 o'clock one morning, Lederman found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Tales Of Patience and Triumph | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

MONTANA Garrulous John Melcher is a prime G.O.P. target. But ConradBurns, 53, doesn't excite voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Safe Seats | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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