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Word: deeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jessie's revelation that this Saturday night will be her last comes without anger, confrontation, hysterics or tears. As she cleans and oils the revolver with which she will do the deed, she simply and quietly informs her mother that she is about to kill herself. This is no rash decision--she has been thinking about it "on and off" for no less than 10 years; "on all the time," since the previous Christmas...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: A Great 'night Mother | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

Roosevelt has run a low-key campaign against Joseph P. Kennedy II. The front-runner, Kennedy has one good deed--Citizens Energy Corporation--and one good name to his credit. But he lacks the experience and the know-how to get anything accomplished...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Vote for Bachrach | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...stores six months ago, after buying so-called put options in the stock of SmithKline Beckman, the manufacturer of all the non-prescription drugs. The option purchase would allow him to profit if SmithKline stock fell after the news of the tampering. Then Marks spread word anonymously of his deed, and SmithKline quickly % recalled its medications. In the end, though, Marks made no money. After pleading guilty to nine counts of tampering and communicating false information, he faces up to 54 years in prison and a $2.25 million fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pharmaceuticals: Going Price for Poison | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of1853, said in an elegy to John Harvard in 1884,"He will teach that one disinterested deed of hopeand faith may crown a brief and broken life withdeathless fame. He will teach that the good whichmen do lives after them, fructified and multipliedbeyond all power of measurement or computation. Hewill teach that from the seed which he planted inloneliness, weakness and sorrow, have sprung joy,strength and energy ever fresh, blooming yearafter year in the garden of learning...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: The Man, The Myth, The Legend | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

Rehnquist's credibility sustained one setback when he acknowledged that his lawyer had indeed sent him a letter in 1974 informing him that the deed to his Vermont house barred its transfer to members "of the Hebrew race." "I did not recall the letter or its contents," said the Justice, "before I testified last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Smoking Gun | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

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