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...Relief from the provisions if the regulations can be sought formally if cost estimates exceed the $152,000 trigger level (25% of $608,000). (I don't want to guess our chances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wheelchair-Ramp Blues | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...mean ole J.R. Ewing. It seems clear whodunit. The question is, whoizzit? Possibilities: Sue Ellen, who was about to run off with Dusty; Pam, who kidnaped J.R.'s son; Leslie, a recent J.R. conquest; and Kristin, back in Dallas and threatening a paternity scandal. Best bet: the trigger-happy Kristin. -By E. Graydon Carter On the Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1981 | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...means are potent: if the feds determine from periodic speed checks that more than half of a state's drivers are ignoring the limit, U.S. highway funds can be reduced. In the case of Texas, for example, lax enforcement -about 70% of Texas drivers are speeders -should technically trigger an annual loss of $8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drive Against 55 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Today's game is also important because it can easily trigger a three-game sweep. Penn, as one professional baseball-watcher put it, "just doesn't have it this year," and the fact that their starters have completed just two games of 21 seems to bear him out. The Quakers are young, inexperienced and rebuilding. A sweep would leave Harvard 4-2 and in good shape, and put some pressure on frontrunners--Cornell, Navy and Yale--who haven't forgotten last year's stretch...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: An Opener, A Show | 4/17/1981 | See Source »

...rage, or blow their own heads off (by design or accident) or hit their own children by mistake. Most murders are done on impulse, and handguns are perfectly responsive to the purpose: a blind red rage flashes in the brain and fires a signal through the nerves to the trigger finger - BLAM! Guns do not require much work. You do not have to get your hands bloody, as you would with a knife, or make the strenuous and intimately dangerous effort required to kill with bare hands. The space between gun and victim somehow purifies the relationship - at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: It's Time to Ban Handguns | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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