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Word: harassing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Doctrine holds that the U.S. should bypass nervous and sometimes unreliable foreign friends in order to harass and, if possible, overthrow Moscow's clients in the Third World. SDI, as originally conceived by Reagan in 1983, was a deus ex machina of global unilateralism: a made-in-the-U.S.A. system for effectively disarming the Soviet Union and any other foreign threat to the U.S. (including, in a number of scenarios, a nuclear-armed Gaddafi or other Islamic firebrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Going It Alone | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Actually, I figured out why UHS is so cheap. It is because they are so cheap. A doctor who will see a walk-in patient and not hand him a $75 medical bill and harass him 'til he's paid it just isn't a very good doctor. If the UHS doctors were good, they could charge a lot more and they would be too busy to let anyone get away with just walking in any time...

Author: By Thomas A. Christenfeld, | Title: Walk-In Woes | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

Cappuccir adds that "students feel free to saythey're unprepared. Very few professors harass,heckle or criticize them...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: Handing Out Diplomas at The Paper Chase | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

...defined by the Supreme Court, is not protected by the Constitution. In Los Angeles, pandering statutes normally aimed at pimps have been invoked to prosecute those who hire actors or models to perform sex acts for the camera. In Memphis, as in many other cities, prosecutors and police regularly harass porn dealers by hauling them in, then letting them go. Some local health codes are also used to keep porn establishments in check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Give-and-Take on Pornography | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...Nicaragua but also in Afghanistan and, more controversially, Angola. The document declares that the U.S. intends to play an even more active role than in the past to apply pressure on the Sandinistas, send covert military aid to the rebels opposing Angola's Marxist government, and help the Afghans harass the Soviet occupying forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once More into the Breach | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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