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...attrition forced Israel to leave Lebanon is the big winner in the new situation, enjoying acclaim throughout their own country and the wider Arab world as the first Arab army ever to drive Israel from Arab territory. Having won the battle for which it was created in the early '80s, the Shiite guerrilla movement now has to find a new purpose...
...supernatural powers--not needing food, for example, because heaven sustains him. But his R.U.F. feeds on earthly stuff: the illegal sale of diamonds smuggled out through neighboring Liberia. Sankoh has ties to that country's President, Charles Taylor, whom he met in Libya during military training in the '80s and who also blasted his way to power. Sankoh may be moving his base to Liberia...
...pretend to work. In fact, socialism did work at one period in history: during the 1930s, and again in the '50s and '60s, socialist economies like that of the U.S.S.R. grew faster than their capitalist counterparts. But they stopped working sometime during the 1970s and '80s, just as Western capitalist societies were beginning to enter what we now call the information...
...thing we do at FORTUNE is publish the definitive list of America's largest companies, the FORTUNE 500. And since the directory's beginning in 1955, the No. 1 company has almost always been the same: General Motors. Sure, a couple of times in the late 1970s and early '80s, Exxon floated to the top when oil prices spiked. Oil and Exxon receded; GM motored on. America's biggest is also the world's biggest: GM leads our Global...
...became known for its cover versions, which "de-evolved" classics like the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" into their bare structural elements. Remembered by most for their early contributions to music video in red flowerpot hats and by a handful for their role in early '80s art rock, the youthful, clever, oh-so-postmodern Ackronites known as Devo, now pushing 40, have decided to release an anthology. Pioneers Who Got Scalped traces the de-evolution of Devo from 1977 to the present, following their glory days as the aforementioned innovative, inspiring, flower-potted musicians to their unfortunate...