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Word: catches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their feet at the sound of the word bridge or tunnel, and even austere political visions have to be | inspired by something more than good housekeeping. Americans know visions when they see them, after all; we have had more of them hurled at us than any civilization can properly catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Candidate with a Vision | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...leak, which spilled 600 gallons of oil into catch basins on the banks of the Charles River, was first detected Saturday night when Boston Edison engineers monitoring the pressure from a pumping station noticed a drop in oil pressure. The pipeline runs underneath the Charles, said Michael J. Monahan, the spokesman for the local electric company...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Workers Stopped Oil Leakage Before It Could Reach Charles | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

Workers dug holes near the catch basins, and "due to the high water table, after three feet they found a combination of oil and water," Monahan said...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Workers Stopped Oil Leakage Before It Could Reach Charles | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...P.L.O., in contrast, has been trying to catch up with the angry young Palestinians. Arafat publicly claimed credit for organizing the protests last week, but his advisers acknowledge that the eruptions were not orchestrated. "The P.L.O. cannot order people into the streets," says a Cairo-based Palestinian businessman with close ties to Arafat. "People have to be motivated by internal factors. It has to be spontaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East In the Eye Of a Revolt | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...away from direct political writing and look like fashion objets themselves, end up saying the most about the Britpop scene and about the years of Thatcher's England. Shopping, from their current album Actually, sounds like a recessional hymn for a fashion show until Tennant's lyrics catch hold: "Our gain is your loss/ That's the price you pay/ I heard it in the House of Commons/ Everything's for sale." Britpop may be so smooth and cool that it has brought a new ice age to the charts. But Tennant and his partner Chris Lowe are the Houdinis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tunes for The New Ice Age | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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