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Word: fining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many a man has been corrupted by fine feathered friends, but one of the issues in the breakup of Robert and Dorothea Curley's marriage must be unique. Dorothea, 38, filed for divorce in Chicago after 18 years of marriage, three children and, at last count, 35 ducks. During a support hearing, she complained that the ducks her husband kept as pets upset the neighbors with their noise and untidy habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Fine Flap | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...countered by reversing the cycle?that is, by reducing government spending. But that required a degree of wisdom seldom seen in the spend-and-spend, elect-and-elect politicians of a democracy. Apostles of Keynes contended that to maintain the proper level of demand, the Government regularly had to "fine-tune" the economy with just the right amount of stimulus, either tax cuts or spending increases, or maybe both at once. As Feldstein puts it, the nonstop jiggling and juggling amounted to "an embellishment of Keynes beyond anything that he had claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Set the Economy Right | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...Berkeley in the 1960s, Boskin remembers, the young were radicals and the older people conservatives. In his profession now, he finds the alignments almost exactly reversed-because of the disillusionment of the students of yesterday. Says he: "The older generation held out too much promise for being able to fine-tune the economy and eliminate all its problems by Government intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ideas from the Innovators | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...comedy of the year. For father really loves son, and would do anything to secure his happiness, while Zaza is really a very nice person underneath his plumage and his craziness. The girl has told her parents that her beloved's father is the Italian consul in Nice. Fine, then Zaza will act that role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gay Birds | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...trappings of this fine-feathered nest, and in come crosses and furniture that would be too severe for a monastery. Another crisis occurs when the boy's real mother, hastily recruited for the occasion, is delayed. Very well, Zaza will do his hilarious best to fill in - even though he is, if anything, less able to play a straight woman than a straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gay Birds | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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