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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 5, 8 p.m. EST). The development of the A-bomb, retold as a three-hour TV movie. Brian Dennehy stars as the general who headed the Manhattan Project; Michael Tucker (L.A. Law) plays a top scientist; and David Ogden Stiers handles the F.D.R. impression...
...rates would cast a pall on the Administration's sunny outlook for economic growth, which is central to its plans to cut the budget deficit. The White House expects the economy to expand by a robust 3.3% in 1989, vs. the 2.7% growth rate predicted by a consensus of top private forecasters. The Administration's scenario for a fast-moving economy would raise more than $80 billion in fresh tax revenues and help Bush meet the $100 billion deficit ceiling mandated by the Gramm-Rudman law for fiscal...
...fact, the keyboards combine the challenge of a computer and a Steinway grand yet are relatively easy to use. The boards can produce a dazzling range of musical effects, sounding jazzy or elegant at the flick of a button or a switch. And though top-end pro keyboards can cost upwards of $3,000, general consumer models for the "hobbyist" market usually go for a couple of hundred dollars. Besides having model numbers that make them sound like racing cars, boards like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland...
...Khomeini repeated his threat again and again, Western governments at last began to take action. Led by Britain and strongly supported by West Germany, the twelve members of the European Community voted to withdraw their top-ranking diplomats from Tehran in protest. So did Canada, Sweden and Norway. Iran swiftly retaliated by pulling most of its own ambassadors out of Western Europe...
...everyone believes that pesticides are as serious a threat as the NRDC claims. Professor Bruce Ames, head of the biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, labels the NRDC's alarms "wild." Says he: "They are piling one worst-case scenario on top of another." Moreover, Ames points out, plants produce their own poisons to ward off pests. "The proportion of positive cancer tests is about as high for natural pesticides as for synthetic pesticides, and we are eating 10,000 times more of the natural ones," he notes. The NRDC insists that its risk estimates are conservative. They...