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Word: feds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colony's year-old attempt to close its doors. About 20,000 have arrived so far this year. "The problem is that it is an unending problem," explains Fazlul Karim, head of the local office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Hong Kong, he says, is "completely fed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees Closing the Doors | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...entertainment media play a powerful role in the formation of values. Today's children, unlike those of earlier generations, are fed a steady diet of glorified violence. Television cartoons feature dehumanized, machinelike characters, such as the Transformers and Gobots, engaged in destructive acts. But viewers see no consequences. Victims never bleed and never suffer. Youngsters mimic the behavior with toys based on the shows. Later they graduate to TV programs and movies that depict people killing or degrading other people. By the age of 16, the typical child has witnessed an estimated 200,000 acts of violence, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...answers. A Moscow woman told the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets, "In other countries, if people express dissatisfaction with their government, it steps down. What about ours?" A Moscow worker offered an equally blunt assessment: "I like the way they are letting off steam, but we're not better fed because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Volcano of Words and Wishes | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins, one of the two senior members in the department and its former chair, says Afro-Am suffers more from an image problem--fed by negative press and BSA politics--than from structural flaws...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Embattled Department Searches for Faculty | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Chinese are fed up with this nonsense. No wonder the students now ask, "Is this still a government of the people...

Author: By Mansu Qian, | Title: China's Great Awakening | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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