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Word: dominos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that loss inevitable, or could the war have been won with different strategy and tactics? Was the war fought for the right reasons? Did its aftermath prove or explode the domino theory? The questions are not in the least academic. They bear on the all-important problem of whether, when and how the U.S. should again send its troops to fight abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Lessons From a Lost War | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Dole's selection as majority leader had a domino effect on key committee chairmanships. Oregon's Bob Packwood, a frequent Reagan critic, will succeed Dole as head of the Finance Committee, wielding power over the Administration's tax-reform plan when and if it is sent to Capitol Hill. "I sort of like the tax code the way it is," Packwood told the Washington Post last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Declaration of Independence | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...domino theory works in both directions, from the Communist countries knocking down all the dominoes and from the democratic countries doing it too. At this moment, U.S. aid has been at a level at which we can survive. But what if we fail? If we win, we demonstrate that there is a way out for the democratic revolution. Then you have an example for the world. Then the U.S. will have real friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Was Really Worried | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...thought on the World Series. During the clash between Alan (Domino's Pizza) Monaghan's Tigers and Joan (Mrs. McDonald's) Kroc's McPadres, Harvard students had good reason to be disinterested...

Author: By Sick Wurf, | Title: To Thanks to You | 10/19/1984 | See Source »

...residents of what must be the only major university campus in the country without either of these great American fast food emporia, we had no vested interest in seeing the Domino's and McDonald's hired hands battle it out for the title...

Author: By Sick Wurf, | Title: To Thanks to You | 10/19/1984 | See Source »

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