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Word: greates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brochures, at least, home banking comes across as a great advance. Customers can pay bills with a few keystrokes. They can instantly move money from one account to another, enabling them to keep cash in interest-bearing money-market accounts until the exact moment it is needed elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Back to The Velvet-Roped Lines | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Parker's great challenge was making the world of his movie work in Mississippi. He and co-producer Robert Colesberry stalked 300 towns as likely locations, with the director impishly yelling, "Alabama Burning?" "Georgia Burning?" "Arkansas Burning?" But he selected Mississippi -- to the delight of the state film commission, which was willing to display its old racist scowl in implicit contrast to its fresh new face of many colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

PLATONOV. Romanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 9, 1989 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

SCHUBERT: SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Virgin). Charles Mackerras leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the aptly nicknamed "Great" C Major Symphony, on original instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 9, 1989 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

That sparkle of individual ingenuity sets many new volunteer efforts apart from the huge corporate rescue missions that define much American charity. While the United Way, the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society serve vast needs and do great good, they are to charity what GM is to industry. Charity too needs its entrepreneurs, dreaming on a different scale, and perhaps genius ripens most fruitfully in a free and private space. That may explain why 105,000 new service organizations were born between 1982 and 1987. "Volunteers are now expected to solve problems," says Jerri Spoehel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Goodness' Sake | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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