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Word: faze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of a graduating class this year doesn't faze the school's administrators--it's happened before. In 1917, for instance, the school went from a three- to a four-year program, wiping out its potential 1920 Commencement line...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Whatever Happened to The Class of 1983? | 2/11/1983 | See Source »

...devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family? I'm a victim of a crooked criminal system. Isn't my family entitled to something?" The shadow of the death penalty does not faze him: "I don't see that happening to me. What would killing me solve? Isn't that just another murder? If I got to die, it's going to be of natural causes." The state of Illinois thinks otherwise. Says Michael Ficaro, who prosecuted the I-57 case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: I Didn't Like Nobody, Henry Brisbon, Jr. | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...surprised middle-aged person, was the announcement from Washington that the number of Americans officially designated as poor had increased to 14% of the population. What seemed incredible was not the painful number of the poor or the painful increase in that number-painful things do not faze the surprised middle-aged person-but rather the fact that the Federal Government now defines the poverty line as an income of $9,287 for a family of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Nothing Is What It Used to Be | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...governments, fatigue, war, strikes, political turmoil, assassination attempts-nothing seems to faze John Paul. In short, this peripatetic Pope seems unwilling to rest on his laurels, considerable though they may be after his triumph in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pope's Triumph in Britain | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...reevaluate your priorities. Certain things become more important--friends, family, that sort of thing. Things that used to make me mad now just don't faze me. Things don't faze me, things don't scare me. Things get put in perspective...

Author: By Wendy L. Wail, | Title: Ex-Hostage Swift: Year of Reflection | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

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