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Word: destroyers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservatism of any family: their desperate fugitive adventure has become a habit worth preserving at all costs. Their secret, their constant risk of exposure, keeps them close. And Danny, in the most private and exposed time of his life, must decide whether breaking away will save his family or destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All in The Post-'60s Family RUNNING ON EMPTY | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...generation." No keys to the car, Son. And no clean beaches, no safe streets, no safe sex, no noble politicians. Just a zillion-dollar debt for you to pay, and a nuclear winter that lasts forever. Adults ruined the world and created Freddy. Only kids can save it and destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Did You Ever See a Dream Stalking? | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Such selective cutting, however, which allowed forests to regenerate species that had no commercial value as well as the highly prized Douglas fir, seemed too inefficient to the Government foresters. Now, perhaps too late, research has shown that clear-cuts tend to break an important ecological chain: they destroy the habitat of small mammals that shelter in forest undergrowth. These creatures eat and distribute mycorrhizal fungi, which grow among the rootlets of saplings and help the trees absorb water and nutrients. There may be enough spores of fungi in the soil after a clear-cut to start a second-growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Lighthawk Counts the Clear-Cuts | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...through a provisional government a political program that would be internationally acceptable," a P.L.O. official said. Speaking to the Paris weekly Journal du Dimanche, Arafat's second in command, Salah Khalaf, said the new agenda "would be completely different" from the 1968 National Charter calling for "armed struggle" to destroy Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Sometimes a Great Notion | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...developed for AIDS patients, the one called CD4 is unique: it is the first substance designed specifically to combat the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. A synthetic copy of a natural protein, CD4 prevents the deadly virus from entering and infecting healthy cells. While it cannot destroy the invader, scientists hope that CD4 can neutralize its ability to attack the human immune system. Says Samuel Broder, a National Cancer Institute researcher who is a leader in AIDS drug development: "It is one of the most important steps we have ever been able to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Decoy for the Deadly AIDS | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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