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...need new markets," insists Ed Laskowski, who farms in Carlock. He wants to see the Federal Government launch a more aggressive export policy and help develop more acceptance in the U.S. for corn sweeteners and gasohol. Meanwhile, like his neighbors, Laskowski is readying his combine with mounting excitement, replacing chains and belts, building up the snapping rolls on the combine's headers, which grab and chew up the cornstalks and separate the ears. When the weather is good, Ed will work into the night; his wife Judy will sometimes climb up in the cab with him, and they will nibble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces The U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Star Wars | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

Surely there are few events, apart from last summer's Statue of Liberty 250th birthday party-turned-tragedy, with which to compare it. (Whose idea was it to launch the 300 Gary Coleman impersonators into hyperspace, anyway?) To be sure, it is hard to forget the party the Faculty threw in 2083 when the last kink in the Core was ironed out. More recently there was dancing in the streets when oftdelayed renovations finally brought North House into the 22nd century...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Happy 500th, Harvard | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

Lauren has a Broadway producer's flair for launching large fashion collections. Boldly and with apparent ease, he markets clothing lines that contain dozens of items linked by a single conceptual theme. He came by such ; skills the hard way: Lauren's first high-volume production, his launch of a splashy Western Wear collection in 1978, was plagued by mistakes. The designer and his manufacturers were several months late in delivering the extensive line of cavalry shirts, prairie skirts, cowboy boots and other products. The women's jeans, which Lauren tailored with his willowy wife in mind, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Some experts fear that Iran may redouble its air attacks against tankers leaving ports in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, two of Iraq's chief financial backers. Iran could also launch its long-awaited offensive along the central battlefront between Baghdad and Basra, where Tehran claims to have 650,000 men. Whatever the response, the Sirri raid has only increased the ferocity of a seemingly endless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf in Harm's Way | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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