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Word: dot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true that Black males commit a disproportionately large number of petty thefts in downtown and inner-city neighborhoods, especially against the often seedy jewelry stores that dot these areas. But what is more important and seldom cited is that the overwhelming majority of Blacks are neither thieves nor robbers nor members of economic groups which depend upon crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shopkeeper's Dilemma | 11/8/1986 | See Source »

...administrator there, Jacqueline A. O'Neill, wins near-unanimous acclaim for almost single-handedly making human communication possible between the monolithic, bureaucratic University and diverse activist groups which dot the Cambridge...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: From Community Awareness... | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

...autumn sun lights on her shoulders as she sits in her White House drawing room, a red-dressed dot of flame that by some alchemy has ignited the nation against drugs. As First Lady, she could have eased up, turned away into antiques or gardening. "But you couldn't, you couldn't, you just couldn't," she says with the fervor of a healer that no one ever imagined dwelled in that 100-lb. frame so elegantly clothed and coiffed. "When you talk to those kids and you talk to those parents who are just torn apart, what it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: It's Morally Wrong | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

What can be done to help these people? I think our friends down at the QRR office might have a few pointers. We could establish a diagnostic obscenity test (DOT) for all incoming freshmen, one which stresses proper context and conjugation, and provide remedial courses for those who fail...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Linguistic Liberties | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

...rapid maneuvers, Texas Air has emerged as the high flyer in the country's fierce merger wars. On Oct. 1 Northwest Airlines formally merges its flight schedule with Republic's, creating what will be the fifth largest U.S. airline, with 9.4% of the market. Trans World Airlines, which gained DOT % approval early this month for its $250 million purchase of Ozark Air, will soon be the sixth-place carrier (8.1%). Two weeks ago Delta Air Lines announced a bid to take over the fourth-place spot (11.9%) in the passenger race with an $860 million play for Western. Warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Among the Merger Clouds | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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