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Word: breaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local city prosecutor refused to pursue the cse on those grounds, however, and Andriette is now considering other legal actions including a breach of contract suit...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Cornell Student May Sue For Revoked Scholarship Funds | 11/23/1983 | See Source »

Embarrassing? The Secretary of State certainly thought so. Filled in by phone last week while traveling to Japan with President Reagan, an irate George Shultz immediately ordered a full-scale investigation. Of paramount concern was not just how the security breach occurred, but how far it went: the State Department could not guarantee that every scrap of secret information had been recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing secrets | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...allowed a Texas firm to sell a device called a Carterfone, which connected mobile radios to AT&T lines. It was the first time any non-Bell product had ever won the right to be wired into the Bell System and was the first electronic breach in the monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...inscrutable woman who must be appraised, wooed, conquered. Avigdor's fiancee Hadass (Amy Irving) is beautiful too, and when her family forces him to break off the engagement, Avigdor persuades Anshel to ask for Hadass's hand. Having stepped into the breeches, Yentl now steps into the breach: she marries Hadass. Avigdor still loves Hadass but is strangely drawn to Anshel; Hadass is trying to divert her love from her former fiance to her new husband. And Yentl is desperately juggling the conflicting passions she feels for her wife and her would-be lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Toot, Toot, Tootseleh | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

According to an account given by Nikolai Vasilyev, minister of land reclamation and water resources, the mishap occurred in September, when a 45-ft. by 80-ft. breach opened in a large earthen dam at a fertilizer plant in Stebnik, four miles southeast of the city of Drogobych, near the Polish and Czechoslovak borders. The break allowed a 20-ft.-high torrent of concentrated salty wastes from the plant to cascade down hillsides, sweeping away railroad tracks, ripping up roads, ruining farmlands, and smashing homes and workshops until it reached the Dniester River 15 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Uneasy Flows the Dniester | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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