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Word: alaska (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEVERAL YEARS AGO scores of passengers came down with severe diarrhea after eating a meal aboard a Japan Air Lines jet. It turned out that a food handler at a stopover in Alaska had caused the outbreak by coming to work, in violation of airline rules, with an infected cut on his thumb...

Author: By Jerry Doolittle, | Title: A Strange Yearning for The Truth | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...House sponsor of the bill, Lindy Boggs of Louisiana. "Its fossils date back 35 million years in Colorado." Senate Sponsor J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana (the American Rose Society is headquartered in the state) pointed out that the "rose is grown in every state of the union, including Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gertrude Stein Was Wrong | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...same fashion, when St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn., needed a qualified radiologist to work for just a month to cover for vacationing staff, they rented the services of a physician who had most recently done similar stints at hospitals in Fort Kent, Me., and Ketchikan, Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Wanted:Professional temps in demand | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...killing them. Some Honduran officials fear the guerrillas are too ill prepared and misdirected to unseat the Sandinistas and will ultimately end up as refugees in Honduras. "They have no chance to win," says a local government official. "I just wish that the U.S. would send them to Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honduras Shadow Fighting in Limbo | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...told, women won 39 nominations for Senate and House seats and eight more for gubernatorial office this year. Earlier in the year, State Representative Judy Koehler was picked as the Illinois Republican challenger to incumbent Senator Alan Dixon. More recently, Alaska State Senator Arliss Sturgulewski swept past eight male rivals in a Republican gubernatorial primary, and Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods handily took her state's % Democratic Senate nomination. Last week Connecticut State Representative Julie Belaga defeated heavily endorsed former State Senator Richard Bozzuto for the Republican nomination for Governor. Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Carolyn Warner, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Petticoat Politics | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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