Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zeitgeist"), and including "1066" and "White Christmas (song)." Knowing at least a commercial idea when it sees one, namely the untrivial sales impact of the list, Houghton Mifflin promises more where it came from, i.e., a dictionary of cultural terms and perhaps an electronic game to test cultural literacy...
...struggles. The director garnishes her rags-to-riches story with elements of samurai adventure and Sergio Leone western, and then has the actors play it straight. Amazingly, it's a satire that involves the audience in the action as much as the characters themselves. When the noodle senseis test her progress after a few weeks, one finds oneself as tense and nervous as if one were watching a shoot...
...Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending a hearing on charges of conspiring to impede the FCC. In the meantime, station WNYG-AM on Long Island is giving the rock-'n'-roll pirates some time on terra firma and allowing them a test 16-hour broadcast this week...
...from the promise of $150 million in Defense Department funds over the next three years to the relaxation of antitrust laws so that firms may collaborate on projects. Recalling remarks by Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Secretary John Herrington declared, "Superconductivity has become the test case of whether the U.S. has a technological future...
...study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the drug AZT prevents patients with only a few symptoms of AIDS from fully developing the disorder. Says Co-Author Margaret Fischl of the University of Miami: "The next step will be to try the drug on people who test positive for the virus but have no symptoms...