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Word: afer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final vote came afer Hatch and a handful of other conservative Republicans long opposed to any increase made a spirited rhetorical effort to derail the compromise by defeating or amending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Approves Minimum Wage Raise | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

ACCORDING to the polls, the signal was detected. A poll conducted shortly afer the convention revealed that 81 percent of Blacks said they will support Dukakis in November...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Blacks Play Follow the Leader | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...universal sig nal for go. To be sure, there were times when the light turned red, but that was almost always after things had already gone too far?after all the money was spent and the stock market crashed, after a demagogue had swallowed a dozen countries, afer the ashes of millions had been blown away. Before then, lands off, wait and watch. In 1934 Cole Porter wrote Anything ties; in 1970 Paul McCartney sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...returning home afer visiting our son who is a freshman at Harvard. While visiting his dorm I had occasion to use the women's rest room and was appalled by the squalid, if not filthy, condition of the facilities. The sinks were filled with hair and dried up toothpaste--there were empty plastic shampoo bottles etc, strewn on the floor. The showers seemed lined with scum. Were I a woman student at Harvard, I could not endure the daily assault on my sensibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Women's Room | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

...said Miller. If it had, he implied, he should have known Said Miller: "I have insisted that I be fully informed about any question of ethics that comes up." On one occasion Miller promised to look into some "strange" transactions in Ghana, then returned to assure the Senators that afer checking with subordinates, he had bund nothing improper. He convinced the Senators; Proxmire cast the only vote against his confirmation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Treasury Secretary Accused | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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