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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of these suggestions have been made before, in different guises, although few have been carried out. Politically, they are problematic because they tend remove benefits from people who do not want to relinquish them. Given this, becoming more like us will not be so easy.

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Little Self-Examination | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

They concocted a plan to restore me to my Texas heritage--a trip to West Texas and the Rio Grande, home of millions of rattlesnakes, very few peoople and the ghost of Pancho Villa. It was a desolate Spring Break to be sure, but it also brought me back to...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

Some experts viewed the Paramount tactic as a move to buttress its position in Delaware chancery court, where Paramount contends that Time is in effect interfering with its shareholders' desire to tender their stock. "This will add a notch to Paramount's legal argument, but it will only put pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount Raises Its Ante | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

At 4:30 p.m. Friday, the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a rock at Brenton Reef, just south of Newport, R.I., spewing about 600,000 gal. of fuel that immediately began drifting toward Newport Harbor. A few hours later, a tanker collided with an oil-filled barge near Houston, releasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of The Spills | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

During the next few days, however, the Sandinistas gave less cordial signals. First, they confiscated the coffee farms of three opposition members. Then, in Caracas, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann charged that unnamed U.S. officials were involved "down to the marrow of their bones" in drug trafficking.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: More Mixed Messages | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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