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Word: bickering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mysterious accident at the edge of an ocean canyon, and the only hope for rescue is the crew of a futuristic underwater oil-drilling rig working nearby. The rig's designer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), who is the estranged wife of its master (Ed Harris), drops down to help and bicker. So does a Navy diving team whose leader (Michael Biehn) suffers a psychotic break caused by the great depths. He becomes particularly obstreperous after he recovers a warhead from the wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Water Bomb | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...Budget. Reagan relished sending Congress what one senior aide called "a go-to-hell budget" laden with domestic-spending cuts patently unacceptable to the Democrats. Bush declared at his Inauguration, "The American people didn't send us here to bicker." He drew up a less contentious proposal and, by managing to persuade congressional leaders to accept his overly optimistic economic assumptions, struck a deal by mid-April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bless Me, Father | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Previous Inaugural calls for bipartisanship were almost always exclusively pleas for a unified American front in foreign affairs. Bush's seemed aimed primarily at domestic fiscal policy. "We need compromise," he said. "We need harmony . . . The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker . . . Let us negotiate soon -- and hard. But in the end, let us produce." Here, if nowhere else, one heard an almost plaintive cry: Help me, Congress, help me escape from the box I've created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: A New Breeze Is Blowing | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...group of students concerned about the fact that sophomores did not really have access to information about the bicker," said group member Ken Gold, a senior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...lack of questioning of bicker that we are against," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

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