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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned mainly our attitude toward ground operations, it really came down again to a philosophical debate on how to handle crises. Those who believed in very slow and measured escalation feared a confrontation with the Soviet Union. Nixon, as well as I, believed that this was the most likely way for a crisis to become unmanageable: if we wished to avoid a showdown with the Soviets, we had to create rapidly a calculus of risks they would be unwilling to confront, rather than let them slide into the temptation to match our gradual moves. Rogers wanted to make the ultimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...general counsel, Ira Gomberg, "A consumer has the right to do what he wants in his own home. If he wants to watch the 6 o'clock news at 10 o'clock, he has that right." That was Judge Ferguson's view too. "There is no way, nor should there be," he said, "for plaintiffs to limit the availability of alternatives to television viewing. Games, books, movies -even people-all divert potential viewers from the television set. It is impossible for plaintiffs or this court to isolate the diversion of Betamax from that of these competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Pandora's Tape | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...pieces have much to do with the plot, which has Moore as a composer growing bored with his longtime inamorata (Julie Andrews). His discontent takes the form of an obsession with a lovely creature (Bo Derek) whom he briefly glimpses in bridal gown and veil on her way to her wedding and ranks at the top of the familiar l-to-10 scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...rating is well deserved, and nothing will do but that he discover her name, trace her whereabouts and follow her to Acapulco. The obsession, of course, puts him in the way of the small, slightly irrelevant misadventures Edwards so hilariously develops, and had he stuck to straightforward farce, the writer-director might well have made a comedy of surpassing quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Random Number | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...season long, it seemed like we never could win a ball game the easy way," Pittsburgh Pirates Second Baseman Phil Garner said after a tenth-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of the National League championship playoff. He frowned, pursed his lips in remembrance of a grueling pennant race that was not decided until the season's final day, then broke into a grin. "But my, how time flies when you're having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Full-Tilt Boogie Buccaneers | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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