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Word: differred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of the NFI. At this point, it is more like professional college football, and the similarities don't end with the two-point conversion rule. That does not necessarily mean that the quality is bad, but both the atmosphere and the type of football played do differ from the NFL., Gary Gillis, director of public relations for the Breakers, points out that fans like the Breakers' type of football "a little bit more wide open, a little more risk-taking." Matthews says that at Breakers games there is "more of a college atmosphere" and "a younger crowd." Not surprisingly...

Author: By John S. Gardner, | Title: Unsportsmanlike Conduct | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

...Temperament" to "Right-Left Asymmetries of Neurological Functions in the Newborn Infants." These multitudinous studies do not go unchallenged: researchers in various disciplines fight for their own specialties, psychiatrists differ sharply in their views from neurologists, judgments are often subjective, and babies themselves are as different as snowflakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Babies Know? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Monday night, the council failed to pass a motion that would place the binding Nuclear Free Cambridge question on the November ballot. The two sides differ on whether the council actually has the power to keep an initiative off the ballot, and the likely outcome, some observers say, is that the proponents will have to sue the council to keep the referendum alive...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Nuke Free Cambridge Drive Wins One, But Still Uncertain | 8/12/1983 | See Source »

Though the authors agree on most points, their approaches differ. Baldrige brings a certain high-toned flair to such workaday frustrations as what to do when a business associate, after having invited you to lunch, fails to appear. The first rule: go to the table, but do not eat or drink anything while waiting. "It looks sloppy," she says. After 20 minutes of staring at the bread sticks and playing with the matches, the executive should tip the waiter $5 or $10 and leave. Later the executive can mention the expenditure to the errant host's secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Etiquette | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...interested in whether or not the buckeyes differ from the checkerspots in their ability to sequester iridoid glycosoids from the plants that they feed on," Bowers animatedly explains. Her experiments this summer will focus on this problem First she will test the butterflies for the iridoid glycosoids, then examine how birds respond to pure iridoid glycosoids as opposed to the entire butterfly--both the checkerspots and the buckeye species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spiders . . . . . . and Butterflies | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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