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Word: couches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minute break is over, so I have to ponder the meaning of this through the rest of my shift. Then, I drag myself up out of the couch, open the front door and peel up the doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...godmother of the backlash against divorce curls in a couch before a window overlooking San Francisco Bay. "I don't know whether the right word is backlash, she admonishes. "That implies that there's no logic to it. I hope what we're talking about is something more rational." But, yes, Judith Wallerstein allows, "I'm glad people are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRICE OF A BROKEN HOME | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

Eric B. Lundequist '97 keeps his stereo on a couch in front of his fireplace...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Radio Interference Irks Apley Court Residents | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

...couch, Lundequist says, is where his stereo picks up the least amount of interference from the Harvard WHRB transmitter located behind Apley Court...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Radio Interference Irks Apley Court Residents | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

...somewhat different route, the same dismissal of old-line thinking and technology that the Tofflers do. In a chapter titled "The Death of Television," he writes, "In an age when computers will be responsive to voice, touch, joysticks, keyboards, mice and other devices, television is inherently passive, a couch potato medium." Why watch what some TV programmer decrees you should watch, when a computer can let you see or create whatever your heart desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Minds of Gingrich's Gurus | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

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