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Word: com (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't you?" the boy appealed to his younger friend. "Man, you're just doing this 'cause we're Black. This isn't fair." His companion smiled charmingly at the ticket seller and said in a tone, perhaps meant to remind her of her own son, "Aw com'on, it's hot. Our mother wants us home. Don't make us walk." But the ticket seller held her ground and the older boy started screaming again...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: A Day on The Red Line | 7/25/1986 | See Source »

...what the council should be doing simply do not have the right to criticize its ineffectiveness, let alone laugh at its blunders. If the council is inefficient and lacks direction, it is largely the fault of a humiliatingly complacent and apathetic student body that would rather watch a sit-com on Channel 4 than bother to participate in improving student life...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Travesty for Two | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...WALKS TERRY, (Jami Gertz) whom you'll remember as the inimitable prepster Muffy from the short-lived television sit-com Square Pegs. Due to the poor screenwriting talents of Ezra Sacks, poor Terry is given a rather confused character make-up: she tells Hector that her father is a decorated Army flier but spins tales of her parents' opening for Frank Sinatra in Vegas for the erstwhile Jack. No explanation of these inconsistencies is ever provided. She's clearly a runaway, but from whom or what is unclear. In a rather impassioned speech to Jack, on whom she's predictably...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Don't Get Taken for a Ride by Quicksilver | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

Barring objections from House Masters, the College will shut down its experimental pay-by-the-hour Com-op word processing system and sell all but four of the 40 Digital Electronic Corporation machines...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Coin-Ops Lose $100,000; Program May Be Ended | 5/10/1985 | See Source »

After being off the air for a long time, Cosby came back to prime time last fall and his sit-com vaulted into the top spot in the Nielsens midway through the season...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: The Death of Coke | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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