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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese are fed up with this nonsense. No wonder the students now ask, "Is this still a government of the people...

Author: By Mansu Qian, | Title: China's Great Awakening | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

Does the added difficulty in getting to the books discourage people from using them? Says Heather E. Coleman, librarian of Hilles and Widener,"I would assume that any time you ask people to undergo a deviation, there's a filtering process...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: From Lady Chatterley to Playboy | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...administrators were more tolerant about student sexuality. As Radcliffe President Mary Bunting told The Crimson, "of course, I don't go through the Houses on Saturday night, and I haven't been making a special point of talking to the girls on the subject, but Radcliffe College should not ask what everybody is doing every minute...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: The Harvard Sex Scandal That Shook the Nation | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets the doctor know how regularly the pills were taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Adultproof Cap A way to keep patients honest | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that few citizens listened. It is only in the nation's booming Seattles, it seems, that residents can ask, What price growth? In the depressed Denvers, even the hope of growth seems to be worth almost any price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Growing Pains | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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