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Word: facedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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DEMOCRACY IS ALL the rage in Washington this week. Faced with a phenomenal popular revolt against longtime U.S. client Ferdinand Marcos, the Reagan Administration reluctantly adopted an alledgedly interventionist policy. Yet it is in spite of American policy--long one of malign neglect--that the Philippine people have finally won...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Intervening for Democracy? | 2/26/1986 | See Source »

Few people had more reason to be concerned at the latest turn of events than President Reagan. Increasingly, the White House found itself on the spot in what Richard Holbrooke, a former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, called "the most serious foreign policy crisis this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going into the Streets | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

A happy life, until one day, Toad, when riding his bicycle in the park, took a disastrous spill. Left thumb broken, arm turned to fossil in a cast, out of which his fingers twiddled uselessly, Toad faced the future. He tried one-handing his word processor, his hand jerking over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

By moving troops across the broad waterway, the Iranians were able to seize Fao, a deserted oil port badly damaged early in the war, and Umm al Rassas, an island about 40 miles from Basra. Iraq conceded that Iranian forces had established "a shaky foothold" in its territory but warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: A Bridgehead to Fao | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

As a result, undergraduates are faced with some tough choices--and in many cases, they choose to try and do everything anyway, usually to the detriment of their sleeping habits. In the past three months, 2851 undergraduates on the university payroll have earned more than a million dollars. By June...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Working and Playing | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

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