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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally impeccable English. "I may have developed my brain a little more in high school, but I think we're pretty equal. I grew up in East L.A., just a few miles from here. You might say I was lucky. And I was. But I made a choice. I chose to start acting. I didn't come out of my mother's womb saying" -- and now he introduces a heavy Spanish accent -- " 'To be or not to be . . . that is the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Burning With Passion | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...number of those admitted who chose to enter the University also hit a record high of over 73 percent, with the incoming class of 1605 students exceeding last year's admission yield by 3 percent...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Freshman Class Sets Application Records | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

...since 1980. No large metropolitan airport has been sited since 1961. The lack of locations for new prisons has caused such overcrowding that / some cities have had to release convicted prisoners." Worse, the solutions to these conflicts have tended to be quick fixes. After years of squabbling, Congress finally chose Nevada as a site for nuclear-waste storage, mainly because the state wielded less political clout than the other two contenders, Texas and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Not In My Backyard, You Don't | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Cipollone chose L&M, she explained before her death, partly because of the testimonials by celebrities in the company's ads. Said she: "I remember they used to be so glamorous. They always used to wear evening gowns." Defense lawyers sought to establish that Cipollone was an intelligent woman who made a decision to keep smoking despite plenty of signs that it was risky. As evidence, they introduced 115 articles from TIME, 47 articles from Reader's Digest and even lyrics from popular songs like the 1947 hit Smoke, Smoke, Smoke, which included the words "Puff, puff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco's First Loss | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Ruddick, who chose the former and upon graduation next January may begin a career as a full-time labor organizer, sees a difference between the activism of 20 years ago and that in which she participates...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: HUCTW | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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