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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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I am writing to you about two incidents which have been reported to my office in the past weeks. I have chosen to share these incidents with the community because each represents one end of the same spectrum with respect to racism.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

But now that I am here, Harvard seems to be tipping to one side. Among the six major sciences, only physics has an increasing number of concentators. The other departments are watching their numbers of concentrators decrease significantly.

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: Scared Off by Science | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

In the use of American military force abroad, Reagan drew the U.S. back from its post-Viet Nam allergy to intervention. He established his bona fides as tough guy so thoroughly that, unlike Carter, he was largely immune to political damage when terrorists demonstrated in bloody fashion just how vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Home a Winner: Ronald Reagan | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

That, as seems to be said more and more these days, was then. I believe that I am now the only wood-stove bore still active on my mile of dirt road. My neighbors have concluded that full-time wood heating is dirty, dangerous (chain saws are worse tempered than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time To Split | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

I remind myself of the old man. Myself and I, as it happens, are having a dialogue, somewhat testy, thoroughly familiar. It is 7:35 on a chilly morning in late fall, and I am swinging an 8-lb. splitting maul, breaking up oak and birch trunks. Myself is feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time To Split | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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