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Word: errand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approximately 30 researchers at the laboratory envision a future with robots acting as reliable errand-runners, able to change batteries in an orbiting satellite or drive to school and pick up the children...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Of Microchips and Men | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

Within a year after joining the gang, Hagan was drinking, fighting and smoking PCP with the best of the home boys. Eager to please the older gang members, he became the fearless errand boy, quickly learning to rob and steal and priding himself on his growing reputation as a "crazy." He says: "I was like a hardhead. The more my parents told me to stay away from gangs, the more I wanted to hang with them." He has his own ideas about parenthood: "If I had a son, I would give him a choice: either he can go to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...business, he zigzags around the world on his jets the way others hop in a car to run an errand, because he must be there face-to-face. He believes that through the force of his personality, he can broker a billion-dollar merger or patch up a domestic tiff. Recently, in a conversation with a woman he had just met, she confided to him that she was in the final stages of divorce. "Stop!" he said excitedly. "Let me reconcile you! I am good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

Colombo. With Persico and Langella both facing prison for long terms, no clear-cut successor can be named. Law-enforcement officials are divided on whether Joseph Brancato, 69, Vincent Aloi, 63, or Aloi's younger brother Benny, 51, will move up. Brancato served mainly as an errand boy for Persico, according to New York investigators, and seems to lack real clout. The Aloi brothers, on the other hand, appear to have the Mob smarts to run the family -- if they want to take the risk of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headhunters: A jury convicts eight Mobsters | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand, he tells his listeners so: "And now I am closing. I have to go to the doctor. The kidneys or something, I forget." Then WVCA shuts down till he gets back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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