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Word: eyeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helen Kelly understands this. She says she can tell the best booksellers and buyers when they walk into her store. "The really good ones don't look you in the eye. They look at the shelves and at the books," Kelly says...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: On Books, Respect, And Time | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

...make him cry. And then they'd nab poor sweet Darla. Thank goodness faithful Buckwheat was on hand to trip one of the little villains in the Little Lord Fauntleroy suits. Even Alfalfa would get into the act, giving one of those rich kids a good pop in the eye. Back in the Depression, those Little Rascals always...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Medicine Ball | 2/24/1988 | See Source »

...current biotechnology boom makes patents and consulting more financially attractive, it is imperative that the University keep a careful eye on its faculty and their relations with industry. The deal involving GP120 and its undisclosed contract signals the return of the problems that plagued Harvard a decade ago. If Essex owns shares in Cambridge Bioscience, did he work on GP120 in the hopes of someday profiting from his work? Did he use his position at the company to influence its decision to buy the chemical's license, and did he use his university post to steer the patent toward Cambridge...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Going by the Redbook | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Most educators welcome a closer eye on accreditation and a toughening of the Government's lax rules on student loans. But many point out that Bennett's proposal could cut off job-training opportunities for the nation's legions of high school dropouts. "A diploma is nice, but you shouldn't turn these other kids away from becoming auto mechanics or secretaries," says Mark Williams, who investigates trade-school abuses for New York State. Reputable organizations like New York's Technical Career Institutes have successfully trained a large number of dropouts. Says California's superintendent of public instruction, William Honig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taking Aim at Trade Schools | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...days later, Alma Lee Washington was sitting in her wheelchair in the doorway of her rundown two-bedroom house in South Central Los Angeles when hoodlums driving by opened fire with a .45-cal. handgun. Washington, 67, was killed by a bullet that struck her in the right eye. Yet her slaying got scant attention. Footage of the grieving family was not the top story on the evening news. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner buried her death in a small note. The Los Angeles Times, which had been splashing the Westwood shoot-out across the top of its metro section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Life in Los Angeles | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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