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Word: elasticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baboon life, says Strum, is an endless series of negotiations. The drama of their lives revolves not around sex or male intimidation but around alliances, around friendships. Baboons have a Japanese complexity of deferences and dominances. They live, it seems to a newcomer, in a constant state of distracted tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

"Theater is an elastic venture," said Gutwillig. You can do a play for $5 or $5000 and everything in between. We are counting on these cabarets to fund the initial segment of our season," said Gutwillig, adding that HRDC has now budgeted only $1000 for the summer program.

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Theater Raises Funds With Cabaret Shows | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

A young man in a purple and gold varsity jacket was dangling a silver coin strung on a thread of elastic He was tall, with an open face and blue eyes and reddish blond hair that was all cowlick and no style, and Clare recognized him at once. Everyone at...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Now You See It... | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

Waiting can seem an interval of nonbeing, the black space between events and the outcomes of desires. It makes time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Waiting as a Way of Life | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

When California's Republican Governor George Deukmejian took office last January, the Golden State was staggering under a projected deficit of $1.5 billion. One month later it was broke. Unemployment hovered around 11.2%. Pledged to balance the budget without tax increases, Deukmejian prodded the legislature to close porous tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restoring a Delicate Balance | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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