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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile square lying 20 miles off Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Part of a necklace of 226 other islands called Las Perlas (The Pearls), Contadora earned its name -Spanish for counter-during the 16th century when it was used by the Spaniards as a place to count their catch from the surrounding pearl-rich waters. In the 1920s, a mysterious disease killed off the oyster beds, and for decades Contadora remained just another of the obscure-if beautiful-islands that speckle the Gulf of Panama. Then, in the late 1960s, the motorboat of the wealthy Lewis conked out near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shah's Haven | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...until they start to curb overall demand, and then prices are expected to taper off. Despite rising unemployment, wages and benefits stand to accelerate. They increased about 8% this year, or much less than the rate of inflation, and workers can make a strong case for more, just to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now a Middling-Size Downturn | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...auction business is booming as more and more Americans catch art-collecting fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Paris, prides herself on her salmon steaks cooked on a bed of sorrel en papillotes. And then there is Yvonne Soliva, of the Moulin de Tante Yvonne in Bouches-du-Rhône, one of whose favorite dishes is ragout of thrush (18 birds for six people). First catch the thrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feasts for Holiday and Every Day | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Burns had just been called for charging when the hustling Tom Murray latched onto the puck deep in the UNH zone. He played catch with defenseman Mitch Olson at the point, then spotted Dave Brook all alone in the slot. The sophomore center calmly banked in a shot off the far post for his first goal of the season...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Stun UNH Wildcats, 4-1 | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

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