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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle has yet to fly in space and touting U.S. "capabilities in retrieval, repair and construction in space, which are well beyond anything they have done." Others point to the U.S. lead in satellite technology and the feats of America's Viking Mars landers and Voyager planetary probes. "We tend to move in leaps and bounds, and they move incrementally," says Nancy Lubin of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment. "The race hasn't ended...
...faculty who receive funding from industry tend to be those who publish more often, participate more in public service, and patent more than researchers receiving funding from other sources, said David Blumenthal, one of the study's authors and head of the Kennedy School of Government-based center...
Lobbyists (and legislators interested in restoring loopholes) are expected to keep their mouths shut about tax reform until the bill goes to a closed-door conference where whatever passes the Senate must be reconciled with the House-passed version. House-Senate conferences tend to be chaotic trading games where deals are cut in back corridors long after the nightly news has signed off. As the battle over tax reform reaches its final hour, the House-Senate conference looms as the dark at the end of the tunnel...
Tough investigators are concentrated mostly in New York and in California, the Olduvai Gorge of the chivalrous gumshoe. By far the best known are the West Coast trio of Hammett's Sam Spade, Chandler's Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. Occasional readers of the form tend to confuse Ross with John D. MacDonald and Gregory Mcdonald. The first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent...
Television and movies reassuringly confirm foreigners' preconceptions of America and Americans. Such notions tend to be superficial and overdrawn, just like pop. The U.S. is violent; just look at Miami Vice. The U.S. is amazingly rich; look at Falcon Crest. The U.S. is zany--and rich and violent; look at Beverly Hills Cop. It is telling that Vanessa Redgrave defends Dynasty and Dallas on Trotskyist grounds. These portrayals of American ruling-class mischief, she says, are politically correct...