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Word: flashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explains. "Before the ball drops, the upward momentum drops sharply. The ball is still rising, but the upward momentum is falling. You know that it will reach its top soon. In the same way, when the majority of my indicators signal a new bottom or top, I know to flash the buy or sell signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Prophet Off Profits | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Whoever gets into space first with operational lasers will obtain strategic superiority there, and perhaps everywhere, literally in a flash. -By John DeMott. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Technology to Transform War | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Inevitably, many of their would-be captors get flash-fried by Charlie, whom her father calls "one great big Zippo lighter." They are imprisoned for six excruciating months while the agency tries to plumb their powers. Equally inevitably, there is ultimately a vast and glorious incineration at the Shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Moppet | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Flash Gordon, space ace of the 1930s, captivate audiences who have had Close Encounters of a latter-day kind? Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis thinks so, provided a few adjustments are made. In Flash Gordon, opening in December, the hero is no longer a polo-playing Yale grad but a New York Jets quarterback. His girl, Dale Arden, has become a working woman-a travel agent. And the hand-cranked special effects of Buster Crabbe's day have given way to Star Wars technics. Arch enemy Ming the Merciless hasn't changed a bit. Still "a mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1980 | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...slid again toward oblivion, a flash of pain jolted his memory back to the Ewing office and eerily illuminated that figure moving toward him in the darkness, eyes and gun blazing bright with vengeance. Of course! It was so obvious. Who else could it have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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