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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last weekend my apathy turned around and slapped me in the face. What should have been a routine weekend trip home to Long Island almost ended in one big deregulated nightmare...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Commuters Unite! | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...feel like I served and returned well today," Brown said. "He has a really big serve, and my return really took that advantage away from...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netmen Play Ungracious Hosts to Temple, 7-2 | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...that's not enough, you still have to get your thesis copied, and the lines at the copy machines will get longer and longer as the big thesis deadlines approach. At Kinko's, which has one self-service machine to make thesis-quality copies, a store employee described the situation as "generally pretty crowded--after all, it's thesis time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writing a Thesis Is Only Half the Fun | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...still a new invention. Sometime during the week, an estimated 85 million people, about two-thirds of the U.S. population, paid an average 25 cents to go to the movies, which included a cartoon and newsreel as well as the standard double feature. A double feature usually meant a big picture with big stars and a B picture with little stars, like Charlie Chan in Reno and Mr. Moto in Danger Island, to name only two from 1939. To satisfy the insatiable public, the studios released 388 movies that year (compared with 349 in 1988), 378 in traditional black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: 1939: Twelve Months of Magic | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...woman crusade has had dramatic results. Kimberly-Clark, McDonald's and Tambrands have asked their ad agencies to pull their commercials from Married. Coca-Cola has promised to screen future episodes. Says Rakolta: "It restores my faith in the big American product companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Too Bawdy At the Bundys' | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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