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Word: farness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film is far more than entertainment; it is social commentary...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Do the Right Thing: Go See This Movie | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

...George W. Goethals, senior lecturer on psychology, says, "The difference is that there is a far wider spread of talent. I've had classes at Summer School that are better than classes at any other part of Harvard...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Profit-Making Venture, Academic Program or Both? | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

INTERVIEW: Far away from the Gulag Archipelago, a Russian expatriate and sage in Vermont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vol. 134 No. 4 JULY 24, 1989 | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...never make anything of long, convoluted passages from Faulkner. But give the Toshiba AS-TRANSAC computer a thoroughly dull, straightforward instruction manual, and it will earnestly chomp its way through page after page. What it does with those pages is the amazing part. The Toshiba machine has linguistic ability far beyond the powers of past generations of computers: it can translate, at least crudely, one language into another. In this case, the computer converts simple English into serviceable, if stilted Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Trying To Decipher Babel | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...speech to the ruling 29-member Council of State rejecting appeals of the four former officers, Castro expressed hope that the U.S. and Cuba can now cooperate in solving "our common problem" of drug smuggling from South America. That conciliatory line was a far cry from his flat denials in the past of charges by Washington that some Cuban military officials were part of the narcotics pipeline to the U.S. As a first step in his country's crackdown, Castro said, Cuban pilots will begin shooting down any unidentified airplane flying over the island that ignores orders to land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: No Clemency For a Hero | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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