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Word: frayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanting Larry Combest to be unopposed for the third time in the past six years, Sawyer, a public-health statistician, jumped into the fray. He urges citizens of this heavily agricultural district to take a hard look at what Republicans have not done for them, arguing that the kind of loose regulation that G.O.P. power brokers like Combest promote is a raw deal for farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: TEXAS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...this wave of invasive, restrictive government has swept up on the shores of fair Harvard. Though previous incidents of reprimand for published work (a Crimson editorialist condemned the Peninsula for its recent publication of an "enemies list") have all been private, the administration has recently joined the fray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ad Board Should Not Try To Limit Freedom of the Press | 10/30/1996 | See Source »

...their statements, parties on both sides of the fray blamed Spaghetti Club employees, although exactly what started the fight is unclear...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: City May Revoke Spaghetti Club's Liquor License | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

Telecom standout U.S. Robotics has made a surprisingly strong entrance into the PDA market with the Pilot Organizer, sold by their subsidiary Palm Computing. At the same time, industry behemoth Microsoft is getting ready to jump into the fray with Windows CE, an operating system for PDAs that might bring some interoperability into the market...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: tech TALK | 10/8/1996 | See Source »

...years, we in Cambridge have noted with glee Yalies' obsession with Harvard-bashing, while we have been able to stay largely above the fray (at least outside of Harvard-Yale weekend). Now that U.S. News has dropped us below Yale and Princeton in its annual rankings, the staff wants to mock our rivals (and now superiors) instead of address the facts at hand...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: They've Got Us Beat | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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