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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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These days a new sideline may drastically change the store's procrastinatory value: two recently acquired video games. Though in the first week not enough people have noticed their presence to cause a nuisance, Eric anticipates trouble from "creeps hanging out." Square bums have been an ongoing annoyance; about one...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

One of the restrictions State Department security agents resent most is a rule against carrying firearms on fraud investigations. "When you whip out that badge, it looks like any other badge," gripes an agent. "There's nothing on it that says we're not carrying guns and we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fake Passports | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Most, if not all, of Miami's 250 banks have drug money in their accounts. As many as 40 banks still neglect to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more, as required by law. And at least four banks, according to law enforcement officials, are controlled by drug dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Florida: Trouble in Paradise | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Widely praised but little known, Elias Canetti cops the Nobel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laurels for an Obscure Wanderer | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Frank Holliwell, 40, is a professor of anthropology in Maryland who once "did a job" for the CIA in Viet Nam. Years later he would just as soon forget the whole thing, but the Company is not about to do so. As he prepares to leave for a lecture in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dying Causes, Tortured Choices | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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