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Word: catches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the use of roadblocks by the State Police to catch drunken drivers is constitutional if Court-set guidelines were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules State Police Can Set Up Roadblocks | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

They probably thought they were buying Star Wars equipment when they took that bid. If you catch Congress on a Saturday night, they'll probably agree to anything short...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Adult Responsibilities | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

...vital area of Star Wars gear -- sensors to detect missiles and warheads across thousands of miles of space, as well as computers to aim lasers, particle beams or whatever -- "technologies . . . are currently more highly developed in the West than in the Soviet Union." But the Kremlin is trying to catch up, it warns, in part by illegally obtaining sophisticated American equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Star Wars | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Jeffrey Stafford had served eight months in Florida's Palm Beach County stockade for aggravated assault when a judge offered him a choice: he could continue to do time in jail or he could go home. The catch? He would have to spend the remaining months of his sentence under electronic house arrest, with a radio transmitter attached to his ankle and a computer monitoring his movements. For Stafford, 28, it was no contest. Says he: "I had been in the stockade long enough to know I didn't ever want to go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiderman's Net: An electronic alternate to prison | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Despite his acrobatic catch and an acrobatic two-pt. conversion that tied the score at 14, and despite a 51-yd. touchdown toss to Rufus Jones, White's statistics continue to take a nosedive...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Anyone Got a Match? | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

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