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Word: fining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scidmore, Ryan Lamppa, Bob Higgins, Brian McAndrews and David Frim each turned in fine middle-distance performances. Frim won the 440 and Scidmore took the 880, as well as placing second to McNulty in the mile. The most exciting moment of the day belonged to McAndrews, who held off Brown's David DiGiovanni with a lunge at the tape to grab second...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Thinclads Storm Past Hapless Bruins in Opener | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Correspondent Marcia Gauger has a fine professional facility for being in the right place at a stimulating time. Three years ago, while on loan from TIME to teach journalism at the American University in Cairo, she was caught in one of the riots over high Egyptian food prices that rattled the government of President Anwar Sadat. This year, even before settling in as the magazine's New Delhi bureau chief, she covered the collapse of the government of Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...removed. Last month, on unrelated business, a housing inspector came by and politely asked him to turn on the lights so he could get a better look. No lights, said White. Informed that he had 24 hours to get the juice back on or he would face a fine of up to $500 a day, White asked for a hearing. But the Boston housing inspection department reread its regulations and last week decided that White had a point. He is still in the dark, leaving Housing Inspection Director Frank Henry thoreauly mystified. "Today," he said, "the average person wants lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Pulling the Plug | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Whenever she did a scene," says Director Robert Lewis, who was a professor there at the time, "you wished that the author were there to see it." She was also much in demand for major roles by the Yale Repertory Theater. By the time she earned her master of fine arts degree she had developed an incipient ulcer: "It was very liberating when I got out to find that you're not competing with 24 people but with 20,000 others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mother Finds Herself | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...selling home computers and burglar alarms, took out half-page ads this month in papers around the country to cry: "The FTC is harassing small businesses, but I'm not going to sit back and take it!" He claims his company has been threatened with a $100,000 fine after three buzzards and a computer breakdown early this year had delayed deliveries beyond the 30-day limit permitted by FTC rules. The commission is investigating alleged delays over the past 2½ years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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