Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...headed for one last major assignment before going into deep space, where, after its power runs out, it will drift forever in silence. By measuring the flow of solar particles, Voyager will seek to determine where the sun's influence ends and that of the stars begins -in short, to establish the exact outer boundary of our solar system. Still, as exciting as such quests may seem, they come at a time of dwindling Government interest in space exploration...
...plot hardly elicit laughter. The jaded Trigorin (Christopher Walken), a fashionable author of about 35, is sensually drawn to Nina (Kathryn Bowling), an innocent 18-year-old. Watching Nina cradle a freshly killed sea gull, Trigorin jots down a writer's note: "An idea for a short story. A young girl has lived in a house on the shore of a lake since childhood, a young girl like you. She loves the lake like a sea gull, and she's as free and happy as a sea gull. But a man comes along, sees her, and just...
...exhibition is not our world; we clump through it like dinosaurs. For one thing, theirs was a time of simple weapons and elaborate drinking cups. Ours is the reverse. For another, we see death as sleep, and they saw it as an eternal feast, an all-night bash. In short, the ancients would have recognized the code of a Gordon Liddy. But what are most of us to make of a time when war required no explanations or apologies, when generals fought in the middle of their troops, and when it was almost reasonable for a leader, say Alexander...
...unprecedented 84.1 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Prices later slipped back as banks boosted the interest rates they charge their prime corporate customers by a full point, to 15½%. But the chill of rising rates, which nearly always push stocks down, was short-lived, and the market resumed its climb last week. Almost all kinds of issues rose, but the big gainers were energy and defense companies, which stand to benefit from Reagan's plans to speed deregulation of domestic oil and natural gas prices and beef up the armed forces...
Businessmen seem willing to grant Reagan ample time to get his program in place. Says Crocker National Bank Economist Thomas Thomson: "The economic levers available to a President aren't that good any more, and the short lead times of the '60s just don't work. Things aren't going to be a helluva lot better in the first part...