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Word: cliffes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cliff is a clothier, Dick runs the moviehouse, Ted is retired. Bill is a school man...On last Thursday morning, Ted thought they all ought to read Machiavelli's The Prince to enlarge their understanding of real political intrigue, a guide to contemporary Washington. If some other, lesser man than Carter were in the White House, thought Ted, we would have had a little army down in Nicaragua by this time, a Machiavellian notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The View from the Ideal Caf | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...prices climb and lines form at the pump, more and more harried motorists are taking the plunge. Not off the nearest cliff-but into their own new swimming pools. One of the byproducts of the petro woes is that sales of backyard pools are expected to top 115,000 this year, up 20% from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pool Boom | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Reggae. No one really knows what it means. In interviews, most reggae stars define the word like Joe Higgs--the man who trained both Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff and can claim with some legitimacy that he invented the music form. Reggae, Higgs said in a recent interview, is political. "Reggae means comin' from the people. Everdy t'ing, like from the ghetto. When you say reggae, you mean regular, majority. It means poverty, suffering...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Bob Marley: The Rasta Wizard Puts on Ivy | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

...carbon dioxide clouds that shroud the planet. Mars, thought by some to be as "boring" as the moon, turns out to be a world with as many oddities and mysteries--with the probable exception of life--as earth. (Where else can you jump off a four-mile cliff or find a volcano that would stretch from Harvard Yard to Toronto?) The planet, as Viking I showed us, looks like a nice place to go for a walk. Its two tiny moons have also been seen up close now, and one of them, Phobos, is covered with parallel grooves...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: How Giant A Leap | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

America's tenth largest industrial company is like an old gas guzzler hurtling along the dangerous edge of a cliff, and in this difficult year the road is trickier than usual. Chrysler Corp., long plagued by uncompetitive products and a lack of cash, is expected to follow its first quarter $53.8 million loss with a second quarter deficit that could come close to $200 million. The company may end the year with a loss of more than $400 million, double last year's $204.6 million deficit. Chairman John Riccardo has made a dozen trips to Washington since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler Drives for a Tax Break | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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