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...were novels or plays. The measure, approved by the Senate two weeks ago and expected to be signed soon by President Reagan, is meant to safeguard the years of research and the tens of millions of dollars that it takes to create a chip that can pack several hundred thousand electronic circuits onto a silicon sliver smaller than a fingernail. One target of the legislation: the Japanese, who have become the world's No. 2 chipmakers after the U.S., partly by duplicating American designs...
...listeners interrupted his 24-min. speech 54 times with applause, and when Reagan shrugged, "Well, I've got to go now," they shouted, "No! No! No!" Reagan waved genially. A thousand balloons floated skyward. The crowd chanted, "Four more years! Four more years...
...thousand dollars of the raised money will sponsor five children in the Save the Children program for one year and the remaining $4000 will go to research on the muscle degenerating disease...
...delivered in New York City over twelve years. Reviewing the earlier Hebrew edition of Repentance, Chicago's Reform rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf declared that Soloveitchik is "more and more obviously the teacher of the time. If I am not mistaken, people will still be reading him in a thousand years...
...Reidar Sognnaes, 72, a pioneer of forensic dentistry, the founding dean of UCLA's school of dentistry, and the man who in the early '70s confirmed the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann by comparing dental remains with existing X rays; of a heart attack; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The Norwegian-born Sognnaes also disproved the theory that George Washington wore wooden teeth, demonstrating that his dentures were probably made of cattle, hippopotamus, elephant and walrus teeth...