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Word: gave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's Kelly Dermody, this year's starter who led the league in goaltending in 1988. The senior gave up only 22 goals in six league games and posted a .690 save percentage...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A History That Should Take Another Course | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

Late on the morning of Saturday, April 8, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker, awoke with a stomachache. It was a telling omen. As Felix Gallardo pulled open the bedroom curtains of his house in Guadalajara, two police lookouts from a twelve-man task force gave the signal. The agents jumped over a neighbor's wall and broke down the back door, surprising Felix Gallardo on the staircase of his two-story home. He was still in his pajamas. Pinned to the floor, he begged his captors to kill him. When they refused, he offered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Wimp No More | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...question: How much computing power can be packed onto a desktop? Last week the company gave a startling new answer by delivering its lowest-cost and most compact computer yet, the SPARCstation 1. The machine is priced at $9,000, about the same as a top-of-the-line Apple Macintosh, yet Sun claims the SPARCstation 1 has more than five times the power. The Sun machine's main operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Station in a Pizza Box | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...touches the Product." It shows: most illegal drug chemists, awash in dollars but their brains stewed by fumes, seldom pay attention to the little touches that transform banal consumer goods into personal statements of good taste. Bernard has 14-karat-gold-plated wheels on his favorite Corvette, and he gave a designer team jacket to the fellow who jockeys his offshore-racing boat. But Bernard is not some Johnny-come-lately cook with a jailhouse recipe in his jeans. He is a second-generation outlaw who at 16 learned how to extract pure methamphetamine from common industrial chemical solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...Nottingham Forest faced off on the field, throngs of fans without tickets poured through a gate that had been opened by police. Seven minutes into the game, a surge of spectators pushed into the packed standing room, crushing those in front against metal barriers. One of the barriers gave way, and at least 93 people were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Bedlam in the Bleachers | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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