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Word: decking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toys available for Christmas are the newest video games. Though a glut of games flattened the market two years ago, Japan's Nintendo has revived the market with souped-up graphics and sound that have lured players back to their screens. Nintendo's deluxe set ($139) includes a control deck that plugs into a television, two hand-held push- button devices, a ten-inch robot that reacts to commands through photosensors behind its eyes and a light-sensing video gun. As the battle rages, players can fire not only at the screen but at the robot as well. Video addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call These Toys? | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...sure thing going, and you just know you're going to win, bear Damon Runyon's advice in mind. "Son, no matter how far you travel, or how smart you get, always remember this: Some day, somewhere, a guy is going to come to you and show you a deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out of this deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet him, for as sure...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Around the pool deck, however, Costin Scalise continues to coach intensely her troops, a squad of 36 swimmers with more talent than any other in Crimson history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Looking For NCAA Birth | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean team. "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: Halloween Bedtime Stories | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

DESCRIPTION: Shows exports from Newly Industrialized Countries 1980-1986: color illustrations show tape deck, boot, bolt of fabric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newly Industrialized Countries: Low Costs, High Growth | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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