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An overreaction? Perhaps; but last year a Detroit jury found Voikos' story so convincing that it ordered the discount chain to pay her $100,000. The hefty compensation was unprecedented, but there is growing evidence that Voikos' ordeal was not. Lie detector tests, either to screen job applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Blood, Sweat and Fears | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Census officials are not at all surprised by the commotion. Slip-ups are just about inevitable in an undertaking as gargantuan as this year's $1 billion effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Storming over The Census | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

THE MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPE. Few oilmen dispute that a very large part of the world's undiscovered oil lies in the Middle East. But with national coffers overflowing with oil revenues, OPEC countries are not making serious efforts to uncover more of it. U.S. and European oil companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Looking for Oil Eldorados | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

Murton didn't play by the rules. Throughout his life he has flaunted a cardinal rule: never expose the system you're working for. His role as he sees it is to uncover the abuses of the old system and point the way toward a new system. At times he...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Cool Hand Bob | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

The failings in this book probably arise out of the complications of transforming a dissertation into a published volume. The exhaustive research of a history thesis leaps out from every page, from a bibliography that numbers over 600 items. The psychobabble, the careless juxtaposition of men and events seem out...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: The Forgotten Shadow | 4/5/1980 | See Source »

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