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...into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn., "you'll be able to touch a spot on your steering wheel and start your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting The Finger on Security | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...1970s were only a bad dream, consumers have been content to step on the gas. Sales of light trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles, which generally guzzle more fuel than autos, have set U.S. sales records for four of the past five years. Small wonder: the price of gasoline, adjusted for inflation, is at its 1965 level. Among customers choosing a recreational vehicle, says Bill Jocoy, a salesman at Northwoods RV Supermarket in Lansing, Mich., mileage per gallon ranks only fifth or sixth among their priorities, after color and floor plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Step on The Gas, Pay the Price | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Clara N. Lee '89, one of the conference organizers, said, "There have been a lot of unconnected programs in the past and as a result there has been a lot of reinvention of the wheel...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Conference to Focus on AIDS | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

Lawrence's only "real life" friend is Joanna. And despite her paranoid tendencies, Joanna is a swell friend. She tells Lawrence about her daily adventures outside. In return, he lets her play with his toy ferris wheel...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Housing Problems | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...casts doubt on his claims. His style of high living is attributed to heavy involvement in Paraguay's large-scale smuggling and drug trade. As a U.S. intelligence analyst put it, "He's been a 30-year intimate of the old man. He's not going to reinvent the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paraguay The Extinction of a Dinosaur | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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