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...course, is angry over the proposal. The 33-page bill, sched uled for a Senate Energy Committee hearing this week, is intended to brake the upward winter of U.S. gas prices. The rise sparked a spate of protests this winter by adding about 25% to the average residential user's rates, despite an oversupply of gas and a drop in the cost of heating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gas Plan: Winners and Losers | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...clerical workers who conducted the survey proposed guidelines to help alleviate the health problems caused by the VDT's. The group recommended in particular that Harvard use terminals that are adjusted to the individual user...

Author: By Deborah L. Paul, | Title: Office Workers' Survey Calls Video Terminals a Health Risk | 2/26/1983 | See Source »

...started out as a nationwide protest against higher fuel taxes and highway-user fees for trucks. But within hours, violence eclipsed the issues. Shortly after 11 p.m. on the first day of the Independent Truckers Association (ITA) strike, George Franklin Capps, 34, a Teamster driver, lay slumped in the cab of his 18-wheeler on Route 701, north of tiny Newton Grove, N.C., fatally shot in the neck by a sniper. "The strike is the last thing we talked about," recalled his widow Esmond. "I told him to be careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low Road to Protest | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

According to the Government's indictment against Smalley, the Englishman conspired to ship 100 vintage 50-ton tanks to Iran by using phony "end user's certificates," which gave the United Arab Emirates as the delivery site. He allegedly planned to buy the tanks from an Army depot in Anniston, Ala. He is also charged with conspiring to ship 8,300 antitank missiles to Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Shots Feel the Heat | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...gargantuan bricoleur, a user-up of discarded things, a collagist in three dimensions. His work touched base with the fundamental modernist movements, seizing and transforming something from each of them. From cubism and constructivism came the planar organization of form and the abstract language; from surrealism, the sense of encounter with a "personage," as basic to his work as it was to Miró's. Given enough found metal, he could launch into runs of astonishing inventiveness, like a jazz virtuoso improvising on a phrase. This happened most notably in 1962, when he was invited to make a sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Iron Was in His Name | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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