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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescue Mission | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...least on paper, the AT&T-NCR combination looks like a good match. NCR, known for its electronic cash registers and automated-teller machines, is a leading maker of midsize and desktop computers. With revenues of $5.96 billion last year, it is the fifth largest U.S. computer manufacturer (after IBM, Digital Equipment, Unisys and Hewlett-Packard). What excites AT&T, however, is not NCR's market share but the potential for linking its own long-distance telephone system to NCR's worldwide network of cash registers and ATMs. That would give AT&T significant entree into the exploding business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reach Out and Grab Someone | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

This year, however, with Holleran's drop-shot missing from the Harvard ranks, Princeton junior Hope MacKay emerged victorious. In a roller-coaster championship match, MacKay beat Yale junior Berkeley Belknap, from whom Holleran swiped the title last year...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: W. Squash Hamstrung At Princeton Tourney | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

MacKay pocketed the first game, 15-6. Belknap stomped MacKay, 15-3, 15-9, in the next two. MacKay came back to close out the match, 18-15, 15-9, in two fast-paced games...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: W. Squash Hamstrung At Princeton Tourney | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

...lenses linked by connecting rods, to guide the grinding and polishing processes. When the Allen committee tested this template assembly, it found that there was a critical error of 1.3 mm (0.05 in.) in the placement of the template's components. The Hubble mirror was carefully fashioned to match exactly this error in the template...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Roots of The Hubble's Troubles | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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