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Word: gal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just don't know what is going on," said Alex Harrison, a retired American buying Kahlua liqueur (not banned) in Juárez last week. Among the horror stories is the saga of Bob Walz, 60, of Tucson, who filled spare tanks in his pickup truck with 250 gal. of diesel fuel in Mexico at 16? a gal. He was arrested at the border for "disrupting the economy of Mexico" and spent five nights in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bordering on Chaos | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even an erupting volcano with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped by the same kind of machine that is used to shoot dog food into cans (it could be nicknamed the Alpo Volcano). The Land (sponsor: Kraft) manages to meld a boat tour, environmental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Disney's Last Dream | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

From Teen-Age Land comes a new species: the Val Gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...Gal does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella americana vallensis (PAV) was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...find a name even if it is not being spelled correctly. Given the phonetic spelling of a name, the computer provides the phone numbers and addresses of all the names that sound the same. For example, if the caller is looking for Jacques Legalle, but types "Jacques Le Gal" into the computer, the machine will still come up with the right name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Terminal in Every Home? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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