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Word: blanking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prime Minister Menachem Begin defended the blackout, saying that it was part of an effort to "prevent bloodshed." He argued that the presence of television cameras and crews in Yamit could lead to "demonstrative tragedies." Unconvinced, Israel's major newspapers left blank spaces on their front pages last week in a gesture of protest against the censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Bombs, Passions and Farewells | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...pull it off, duplicators simply hook a couple of devices called disc drives to their microcomputers, then slip the disc containing the program they covet into one drive and a blank disc into the other. Machines can then read the contents of the programmed disc and write them onto the blank. Manufacturers, of course, have tried to prevent this, usually by scrambling the information in such a way that a straightforward reading of the disc will either generate garbage or erase the program. One way around that is a burglary tool called Locksmith. Designed to permit computer owners to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Pranksters, Pirates and Pen Pals | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...Radcliffe always served as the mechanism through which women could receive a Harvard education. Now that women are admitted with men, enrolled with men, and housed with men, the obvious question is what role remains for Radcliffe. Opinions range from author Diana Trilling '25's point-blank "Radcliffe is dead," to the Radcliffe Guide's assertion that "Radcliffe has a specified role in the development of the administrative policy affecting undergraduates." According to the 1977 Agreement, the most recent document governing the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship. Radcliffe pays Harvard College to educate its students leaving control of the curriculum to Harvard...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Holly A. Idelson, S | Title: Free Bird or Lame Duck? | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

...retired 41 straight batters to break the record of 38 held by ______________________. (Five points for each blank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sports Cube Annual Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

...year-old Soviet leader was last seen in Tashkent as he was about to board a plane that would take him back to Moscow after a four-day visit to Soviet Central Asia. Given the hectic schedule Brezhnev had set for himself, his dazed, almost blank look as he inattentively followed the departure ceremonies did not strike Soviets watching the evening news as unusual. During almost a decade of precarious health, Brezhnev had had such bad days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Invisible Man | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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