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Word: enjoyable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which seems to enjoy producing controversy as much as classics, the settlement was a victory. For the rest of us, the settlement is a minor defeat, weakening some important but usually unrecognized ideas about the protection of intellectual property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Between Art and Law | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...appreciate the many letters and calls we received from 'students and faculty thanking us for the invitations to our events. We were particularly touched by a recent note from a Black freshman who attended the NAACP dinner. It read in part: "Thank you very much for inviting me to enjoy and help honor Benjamin Hooks and other contributors to the NAACP....I am very much interested in helping the Foundations." This is the kind of participating spirit that the Foundation has endeavored to develop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Foundation | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...been shown to weigh most heavily on minorities and the poor. Bouyed by a white backlash against affirmative action, this Administration has successfully stymied, or even reversed, previous efforts toward nondiscriminatory hiring practices. Blacks cannot hope to reverse these trends without white support, but neither can whites hope to enjoy a peaceful society if they ignore the alienation and violence bred by such injustices. King never failed to underscore the interconnection of the causes of all segments of society; while the current problems faced by the Black community differ substantially from the explicit legal oppression of the sixties, King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Very Much Alive | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

Constructing this elaborate seenario takes the first Third of the film, and it is a pleasure to watch. If director towards learned anything from his Pink Panther films it was how to set up a really big gag, and make the audience enjoy watching the pieces fall into place until the film blows up. In this case, the gag is the inevitable simultaneous birth of Rob's two children--at the same hospital--and it meets every expectation. Unfortunately, the madcap scene at the hospital and its aftermath only occupies the last third of the film, leaving a yawning nine...

Author: By Cerus M. Sanai, | Title: Husband and Wives | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

...explanation is that most voters simply judged Reagan's policies to be working. Early in 1984, the nation was enjoy- ing its highest rate of economic growth in 34 years, its lowest inflation rate in twelve years and a rapid drop in unemployment. Reagan boasted that in four years the Soviets had not added an inch to the territory under Communist control. After four successive presidencies widely regarded as disappointing, Americans strongly approved a White House tenure that could be described, for the moment at least, as a success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Also Made History | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

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