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Word: discoverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goodness at the Crossroads | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

How the two young men discover that they have been had and how they join forces to take revenge are the substance of Trading Places, one of the most emotionally satisfying and morally gratifying comedies of recent times. Perhaps because of an almost geometrically balanced structure, it has powerful persuasiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Down the Tubes, Up the Ladder | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

The first real conflict that took place in the area came up about seven years ago over genetics and recombinant DNA. It not only pitted activist against researcher, but divided the scientific community as well Nobel laureates George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and James D. Watson, Cabot Professor of...

Author: By Seth A. Tucker, | Title: Just a Little Nervous | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

*Diana Gargon of the Graduate School of Education sponsored a research project on "video game-playing and spatial perception," and as part of the project gave students five hours of free playing time for one week. The project will discover" a whole new type of literacy," Gargon said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Twenty thousand percent more, to be precise. At $449 per family, the returnees had better be well-entertained and fed. One woman, arriving at her dorm-to-be declared that she would not stay there if forced to share a john. Any undergraduate could have told her that's what...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Join the Crowd | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

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