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Moreover, the tests, which range over five achievement levels from simple arithmetic to algebra, are not all that tough. A typical base-level question: Which of these numbers is closest to 30? 20, 28, 34 or 40? A top-level question asks: Suppose you have ten coins and have at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flunking Grade in Math | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Aside from taste, the most important weapon of the great pizza war is home delivery. While mom-and-pop parlors have long offered this service, the upstart Domino's Pizza of Ann Arbor, Mich., upped the ante. Promising a $3 discount on the price of any pie that takes longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saucy Fight for a Slice of the Pie | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Merhige's ruling removed much of the uncertainty surrounding Robins and encouraged the flurry of takeover bids. Right through New Year's Day, the contestants kept raising the ante. American Home Products, the maker of Anacin headache tablets, reportedly offered $3.08 billion, as Sanofi did. But A.H.P. wanted all of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So What If It's Bankrupt? | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Though it occupies one of five permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council, the Soviet Union has long been one of the U.N.'s pickier dues payers. Moscow has consistently refused to ante up for special operations that it opposed politically, starting with a peacekeeping force at the Suez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Your Check Is In the Mail | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Manwaring's and Vanderbyl's expansive ambitions are reminiscent of the 1930s and '40s, when a few well-known designers proposed to remake the nation -- objects, interiors, buildings, anything. In Northern California today, that can-do catholicism is abetted by the stylish young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and Marin County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Nouvelle Cuisine For the Eyes | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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