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Word: bettereds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months before the NTSB reports on the cause of the crash. Two questions undoubtedly will be deeply probed. Why did the turbofan engine, built by General Electric and used on DC-10s, break up in flight? Were all three hydraulic systems knocked out, and if so, can they be better protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brace! Brace! Brace! | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...also from a sense that the work has paid off. Out just a month ago, the new album has already gone gold: the title cut, released as a single, sounds similarly hit-bound. It is a ravishing love song, slightly world-weary and bracingly off-center, nostalgic for better loves and wiser times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Building On Prime Real Estate | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...Mort was better. He was the [gerundive] [a part of the body]. I mean, all those shows made you laugh, but Mort, he was different. He made you laugh, scream your lungs out and beat up the person next to you all at the same time. Dick Van Dyke can't do that...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...George W. Goethals, senior lecturer on psychology, says, "The difference is that there is a far wider spread of talent. I've had classes at Summer School that are better than classes at any other part of Harvard...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Profit-Making Venture, Academic Program or Both? | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

Goldsmith maintains that B.A.T shareholders would be better off if the company were to refocus on the high-profit tobacco business, which is experiencing new growth in Asia and other overseas markets. A veteran conglomerate-buster who served as the model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's A Reach, Sir James Goldsmith | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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