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Word: employed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sperry Rand will begin production in January of electronic components at a $6 million plant now going up on 80 acres near St. Petersburg, Fla. The operation will employ 1,000 people at first, ultimately perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOOM: Surging to Prosperity | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...legal to employ the FBI for that purpose. So I would not do it. [Attorney General Edward Levi recently made such a determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ford: 'It's Much Better to Go In as an Underdog' | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...simply does not use the "good ole boy" phraseology; his speech is far too aristocratic for that. Even in casual conversation, he is not likely to fall into what linguists call the double modal-"might could" or "might ought." Nor can he be expected to employ another familiar Deep South form, the perfective done, as in "he done did it." Between now and November, moreover, his audiences are not apt to hear him describe his opponent, as some Plains folk might, as "a sorry piece of plunder" or threaten to "knock the bark off' him or talk of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LANGUAGE: Sounds of the South | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Moviemakers and playwrights love to employ a show as a metaphor for the world; customarily the works that use this device are impossibly pretentious and unpersuasive. As Altman presents it, this tatty wild West show is ill-choreographed and never delivers all it promises. Yet on the whole, it is an extremely graceful journey over ground that has tripped many in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bill Rendered | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Twelve demonstrators from the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, Motion Picture Machine Operators picketed the Harvard Square Theater for 30 minutes Friday night, carrying signs reading, "This theater does not employ union operators...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Pickets 'Note' That Theater In Square Has No Union | 7/13/1976 | See Source »

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