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Word: distractedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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To enhance its security on the ground, the kingdom has fashioned a force called Peninsular Shield with its five partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Together with Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has assembled a 5,000-man force stationed in King Khalid Military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia Facing a Double-Barreled Gun | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

The only child of a wealthy businessman, Chirac was born in 1932 in Paris and attended the city's top public schools. "Too talkative, too distracted, too excitable to succeed," predicted one school report card. Nonetheless Chirac's grades earned him entrance to the elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Irrepressible Bulldozer | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Mexico's woes have distracted U.S. attention from its own patch of despair in Oklahoma and Texas, said Thurow. Falling crude prices have not only devastated many oilmen there but also their suppliers and much of the real estate industry. Says Thurow: "When the oil industry goes down, the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Tiger in the Tank | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

But it may be too late. For Ahab is plotting with his free-market cohorts, the sultan is distracted, and the profit motive looms large in Abyssinia. At the end of the first act (which runs for a marathon 90 minutes), cliff-hanging questions remain: will capitalism turn the sandy...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

There is nothing wrong with protesting against a movie. But while efforts to suppress the film have not been endorsed by the Catholic Church, the Committee to Oust Hail Mary from America and its supporters have done a disservice not only to the general public and to those who wish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Expression | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

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