Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...make sure that a story did not dally in its progress from writer to printing plant, a "flow chart" was set up outside the office of Managing Editor Ray Cave. By watching color-coded magnetic squares on a gridlike metal board, editors were able to track their copy as it proceeded through the various stages of TIME'S editorial process: writing, editing, checking, re-editing, copyreading, proofreading and fitting. The last story cleared the board at 2:31 p.m. Wednesday, 29 minutes ahead of its final deadline. Said Leliévre: "There is no room for error...
...details of bills begin to emerge, it will be difficult to tell. Reagan has vowed to keep his list of legislative desires spare and his program simple. He seems certain to seek and is likely to get a substantial tax cut, sharp increases in military spending and progress toward deregulation of business and the elimination of needless bureaucratic rules. The mechanism that Reagan may try to use is the passage of "sunset laws" killing regulations unless they are examined periodically and specifically reapproved. There is growing bipartisan sentiment for all such measures...
Citizens would do better to follow the example of the 75,000 southern Floridians who belong to Citizens Crime Watch (C.C.W.), a nonprofit neighborhood corporation that works closely with local police departments. When a C.C.W. member spots a crime in progress, he telephones the police as well as his block captain and two other volunteers. Each of those three calls another three members, and so on until all the volunteers in the neighborhood are notified. Armed with pencils and notebooks instead of .38s, the crime watchers jot down details of the crime and suspects before the police arrive. Local authorities...
Last week, while earthlings nearly a billion miles away marveled as they monitored its progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi heroes of the pre-Star Trek generation, by five centuries, Voyager 1 brushed past the ringed planet Saturn, second largest member of the sun's family, and provided the best images yet of that strange and wondrous world, a far-off realm in the solar system never before glimpsed with such glittering...
Other nations were watching closely. On Japanese television, astronomers and space specialists took turns filling the airwaves with learned commentary on Voyager's progress. In Britain, television stations broadcast a drumbeat of bulletins on the mission. London's Sunday Telegraph hailed the achievement as "the most spectacular piece of space exploration since men stepped foot on the moon...