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Word: agains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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At an emergency meeting in Zurich, the European airlines persuaded their national civil aviation authorities to allow the DC-10s to return to the air, even though the U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board had not yet determined the probable cause of the Chicago crash. Even so, passengers showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Confidence Vote | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Once again, it is hand-wringing time at the thrifts. With a 13% inflation rate, people are being driven into investments that offer more than the paltry 5¼% or so that savings banks and savings and loan associations are allowed to pay on passbook accounts. The result is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Squeeze | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Richard Tuggle, a first-tune screen writer, has based his script on the real-life exploits of Frank Morris, a convict who fled Alcatraz with two buddies in 1962 and was never heard from again.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fast Break | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

From the title essay, which deals with the discovery of 19th century Brain Researcher Paul Broca's own brain in a formaldehyde-filled jar in a Paris museum, to his final speculation on out-of-body experiences and life after death, Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) again balances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

If only he could go home again. But back in Manhattan lurk Billy's sister Abby, who clomps "the treacherous hike from the bathroom to the kitchen linoleum" in hiking boots; his twice-divorced mother; and her balding lover Henry, whom Billy catches poring over nymphet glossies in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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