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Word: 4s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently told a visiting scientist. "I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Just Dig While You Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...duty, reservist and Air National Guard pilots flying in from bases as close as Colorado and as distant as Korea. Much of the costly $1.2 million exercise is calculated to impress Congress. It provides comparative statistics measuring the high-tech F-16 against older planes such as the F-4s, A-10s and A-7s flown by Guardsmen and some reservists. Computerized bombing, applied by man, usually triumphs, and the Air Force needs the results to justify an increasingly high-tech budget. Gunsmoke's backdrop is 3 million acres of training range just north of the slot machines and bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nevada: A Rodeo for Throttle Jockeys | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...long as the old one. In a letter to Lawrence Gibbs, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Bentsen asked the IRS to consider making the W-4 optional or substituting a shorter form. But the agency says it has no plans to do so, because 100 million of the W-4s have already been sent to employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Finding Fault With Form W-4 | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

With almost theatrical timing, the forces in the display paraded past the reviewing stand with progressively more sophisticated arms. The climax came with China's pride, the big missiles. The contingent was led by two short, stubby rockets that Western observers recognized as CSS-NX-4s, still experimental but deployed for trials aboard one of China's two Afa-class ballistic-missile submarines. With a limited range probably similar to that of early U.S. sub-launched Polaris missiles (1,200 to 1,500 miles), the CSS-NX-4 nonetheless is a potent weapon: its existence ensures that part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Snappy Birthday, Comrades | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...Highflying U.S. AWACS planes had tracked the Iranian jets across the gulf, then Saudi coastal radar picked them up when they came within range. With the Saudi technician aboard the AWACS plane relaying information and guiding his own fighters, the two Saudi F-15s intercepted the less-advanced F-4s, and the fight took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Pushing the Saudis Too Far | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

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