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Word: dad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost one-fourth of all elderly households have a median net worth of between $100,000 and $250,000. Their children are not doing nearly so well, and in the two-career marriages of the 1980s, they seldom have room or time to care for Mom and Dad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance for The Twilight Years | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...know what I hate?" I asked. "Harvard forces you to eat breakfast. I mean, the way Harvard charges us, I could probably save my dad nearly 75 bucks a year by skipping break fast. What's worse," I added, "you can't even get steak on seconds...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Down and Out in Cambridge | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

This is no easy task, given the hurly-burly of a crowded plot. The pair pick up the trail of a drug-smuggling ring, and the film never quite persuades us that a smart group like this one would turn on the Murtaugh clan in order to scare off Dad. But it is hard to focus on such fine points, given the dark intensity with which Director Richard Donner stages the nonstop action of the film's final 30 minutes. Among movie bone crackers, he is the one who seems to have an advanced degree in chiropractic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bone Crack LETHAL WEAPON | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...Frere Jacques a whole new meaning, can help your child develop the capacities to become a fulfilled speaking subject, and prepare him to confront successfully the challenge offered by each of life's aporias. He'll learn to undermine the binary oppositions that separate work and play, mom and dad, fact and fiction. Of course, this creates problems when Junior lies to mom and swears he's telling the truth to dad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

This emphasis on invention over architecture created new demands on Cudmore and his two sons, Colin and Sean. "At first it was hard." says Colin, 20, who is presently working in Washington, D.C. "We didn't have any steady paycheck, and Dad had to be alone all the time so he could think...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: From Flying Cars to Expanding Minds | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

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