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...team, left the building to sit in the cold outside the door and talk of anything but squash with a non-squash friend. On the top echelon of Hemenway's ziggurst grandstands Jim Lubowitz simply sat, head bowed to the floor, hands on his face trying to wipe out the match's final result...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Squash: Women Nab Howe; Men Lose | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Copying an unprotected computer program is only slightly more difficult than making a tape recording. Instruction books for personal computers always give instructions on how to make a duplicate of an important program. This is essential because an accident like spilling coffee on a disk can wipe out all the information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roaming Hi-Tech Pirates | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...wealthy. Samples: a near elimination of estate and gift taxes; so-called All Savers Certificates paying tax-free interest; special write-offs for oil drillers, truckers, and developers who rehabilitate old buildings; so liberal a rewriting of the depreciation rules that many economists think it really will wipe out the tax liabilities of many or even most U.S. corporations over the next few years. One depreciation rule on telecommunications equipment could be worth an estimated $14 billion to A T & T alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stewing in Its Own Largesse | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Squash is hell, or the "Thank-God-theater-warfare-isn't-played-out-on-four-walls" sport. Having dismissed the Navy Midshipmen in short order before Christmas, the Harvard men's squash team took time off from reding period this weekend to wipe out yet another branch of the armed forces, Army, by a score...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Crimson Crushes Cadets; Brog Topples No. 1 Tiger | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...just plain curious will crowd into the Music Hall to watch this world-class shaman pull a rabbit-or a dog-out of his hat. "It's a brilliant move," marvels Writer-Director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo). "If it's a hit he can wipe out a year of bad publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Presenting Fearless Francis! | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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