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Word: controlling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this may give you the impression that M is nothing more than a hopeless space cadet, but she's really not. She is an intelligent, warm, funny, sensitive woman who, above all else, wants to be loved and wants to be able to control the visions haunting her. She wants someone to be with her, to help her face the slings and arrows of her outrageous fortune, but she finds herself "always alone with what I fear most--the sound of my memories...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Flying in the Face of Reason | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

MARYVILLE, Tenn.--In an unprecendented divorce case, a woman seeking control of seven frozen embryos was awarded temporary custody yesterday by a judge who ruled that life begins at conception and that the woman should be allowed to carry them to term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge: Life Begins at Conception | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

...moves demonstrated Gorbachev's firm control at the pinnacle of Soviet power at a time when economic failures and ethnic violence prompted some Soviets to fret openly about the possibility of a coup or civil war. Gorbachev is both the nation's president and the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorbachev Initiates Politburo Shake-Up | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...shake-up came after the party Central Committee yesterday approved a program directing restive Soviet republics to stifle calls to leave the union but acceding to demands for more local control of the economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorbachev Initiates Politburo Shake-Up | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...that Gates will have to look for long. With his buddy Bavs out for the season, center midfield looks mighty inviting. And Gates marked himself a permanent place there yesterday with great control and an excellent sense of the game...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Men Booters Blast Past Hartford, 2-1 | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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