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Word: barringer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Accommodations on this twelve-day flight are terrible. We are both strapped in so tightly we can hardly budge. Our every twitch is monitored by electrode caps on our heads. I tried to be good but after five days, I had had enough. Tugging about with my shoulders, I wrenched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Station, Can You Read Me? | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

After Falwell filed his bankruptcy plan, creditors carped over the slow repayment schedules. The Lifetime Partners agitated for a return on their investment, and were not mollified by such offers as discounts on Heritage enterprises or stock in a new for-profit corporation that would develop real estate and begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Falwell Throws In the Towel | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Time for a hunch. Barring man-made calamities, natural disasters or World War III, George Bush is apt to become the next President of the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: For Real Fun, Watch the G.O.P. | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

The Journal has long been a newspaper with a split personality -- editorials written by "true believers" and the news reported by true skeptics. The man charged with reconciling these contrary forces doesn't believe in doing so. He is Warren H. Phillips, chairman and chief executive of the parent Dow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: Offsetting True Believers | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

Whatever the justice of the case, Biden's campaign does appear seriously wounded by the latest outbreak of the New Politics of Rectitude. Biden vowed that his campaign will continue, but barring some cleansing act of valor, he may be doomed to limp along until the chance comes to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Familiar Quotations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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