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Word: dreamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea isn't just a fanciful dream. When the MBTA burrowed under the Square several years ago for the subway, university officials briefly considered a version of this plan...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Diversions of a Head-y Weekend | 10/24/1989 | See Source »

...social and economic improvement, the Federal Government began to lose its bearings in the '60s and '70s in the midst of wars, both cold and hot, domestic upheavals and a worldwide economic revolution. As the nation's economic base began to contract, some basic elements of the American Dream -- homeownership, a college education -- began slowly to recede. The Government responded fitfully to these developments and eventually took on the form of a bloated, inefficient, helpless giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Federal Government: The Can't Do Government | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...disillusioned party member views state sponsorship of psychic and UFO studies as a new sort of official opiate. Says he: "They've been feeding us rubbish about the dream of Communism for years, and we now see they were lying. At least this gives us something new to dream about." So the next time aliens approach and ask for directions, point them toward Moscow. The Soviets need them more than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elvis | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Maybe if I give Mark a call really late at night when he's asleep. I'll tell him the field hockey team could very well win its first Ivy League title, and then hang up. He'll probably think it's some kind of dream, and knowing Mark, he'll believe...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Two Friends Thinking Field Hockey | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

Riders love the journey for what they can dream as well as for what they can see: the elk, which roam the Rockies ("Is that a reindeer?"); the prairie towns, which resemble those in a grainy old movie; the vanilla flatlands; the rolling farms. "More than anything else I can imagine, it makes you appreciate the size and grandeur of the country," says Geraldine Stevenson, 71, a retired schoolteacher from Saskatchewan who has ridden the Canadian many times. "It seems we're always being nibbled at here and there. We're losing our identity, and trains are a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You Can't Get There from Here | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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