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Word: baseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience at Radcliffe," she continues, "and knowing and caring about women there gave me a base for believing that women should turn to each other for help...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Alumni Reflect on Lives Shaped By '60s Politics | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...addition, according to the union, the process of appearing before the NLRB--no matter what the outcome--can be detrimental because of the delay. The longer it takes to resolve an appeal, the more it jeopardizes the union's base of support--which dissipates with time. The union and the University spent more than a year before the board in arguments that led to the 1984 decision...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: NLRB is Key to Unionization | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

Students, who occupied the shantyaround-the-clock when it was first built, now useit only as a campus base from which to distributeleaflets, said Nancy L. Fishman, a recent Yalegraduate and member of the university's CoalitionAgainst Apartheid...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Yale Alumnus Charged With Burning of Shanty | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...Todd is neither a cynic nor a coward, and he never dodges the consequences of his own wild inspiration. Rousseau, he recognizes, is the "first modern man . . . ((who)) spoke for all of us suffering mortals, our vanities, our hopes, our moments of greatness and our base corrupted natures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rousseau Redux THE NEW CONFESSIONS | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Helms, one of only six Senators who do not have a college degree, dropped out of Wake Forest to become a reporter, then program director of a Raleigh radio station. Years later, his unabashedly conservative editorials for a Raleigh television station won him a statewide following and future political base. He first came to Washington in the early 1950s as a staffer to North Carolina's Senator Willis Smith, but the advice he remembers best came from Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell: "Jesse," he told him, "a Senator who does not know the rules can be cut to ribbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSE HELMS: Scourge of the Senate | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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