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Word: discoverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Men is not the sort of movie you'll laugh your way through; nor will it make any great sort of impact on you. But just in case you discover your spouse is sleeping with someone, you'll need to know how to deal with it. And in a manner...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Euro-Yuppie Male Bonding | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

Of course, Harvard wants to test out copy cards in a small library--one where, incidently, most students will never go--before committing to a card system on a large scale. But if the cautious minds who run the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' libraries bothered to stroll over to...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

Breaux promptly struck back in kind. What is the significance of the number 1,083? the narrator asks. After more guesses -- the number of games lost by the New Orleans Saints? the highest temperature this August? -- comes the Democratic answer: the average number of jobs Louisiana loses each week thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having the Last Laugh | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

When the controller turned his attention back to Flight 498, seconds after 11:55, he was shocked to discover that it had vanished from his screen. Frantically he called Flight 498 eight times. There was no reply.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collision in the Birdcage | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Some customers may discover the outcome of the telephone balloting only when their regular long-distance service is suddenly reassigned to a different supplier on the basis of the voting outcome in their designated area. Dozens of such reassignment possibilities now exist across the U.S. as a result of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratifying a Winner in the Phone Vote | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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