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Perhaps inspired by their predecessors of the early '70s, who shreaded paper and erased tapes, White House aides unplugged some of the television crew's hook-ups to the microphone system, which prevented the press from getting Reagan's expletive on tape...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Not Just Another Sob Story | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...greater safety, several companies have devised methods of sealing the individual capsules to make them tamper resistant. Eli Lilly has developed a tiny belt of gelatin that binds, like a piece of tape, the top and bottom halves and makes it difficult to open a capsule without tearing it. Sterling Drug uses sound waves to create a kind of spot-weld on capsules of its Panadol pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson says that it too studied new methods of sealing capsules but decided that none was completely secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hard Decision to Swallow | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...prosecution had based its case on tape recordings culled from a total of 850 hours of conversations the FBI secretly recorded in 1981, was a judge's permission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jury Finds Angiulo Guilty of Racketeering | 2/27/1986 | See Source »

...students and others protested in silence, their mouths covered with tape, as trustees entered the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark, Smith Decide to Divest | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

...athletes, testify to her excellence as an instructor. The administrators had conceded that athletes were often carried, and their lawyer argued that if an illiterate jock learned to read at Georgia and thus became a mail clerk instead of a garbage man, the university was doing its job. A tape playback of Trotter addressing a faculty meeting included her comment that if teachers thought some of the athletes had a bona fide chance of graduating, "we're talking through our hats." Apparently so: the Macon Telegraph and News reported that in ten years only 17% of Georgia's black football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blowing the Whistle on Georgia | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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