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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship seems to be a bit out of place. The majority of news about the American economy centers on the positive effects that supply-side policies and Paul Volcker's tinkering with the money supply have had on big business. What the public doesn't hear about is the bitter aftertaste the "recovery" has left with larger numbers of people in the country who are just now beginning to realize the sham of the so-called economic boom...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Whose Recovery? | 8/6/1985 | See Source »

...with this latest decision from the state's highest judicial authority, ADL must finally stop experimenting with the gases in its specially built, $1 million Levins research Laboratory. Before ADL could obtain another injunction to resume testing, the U.S. Supreme Court would have to agree to hear the case...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Mass. Court Upholds City Nerve Gas Ban | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

...panic by special interest groups. How many times have we heard that student aid cuts would "devastate" higher education as we know it? How many times has Caspar Weinberger '38 informed Congress that one, less dime for defense will surely invite a Russian invasion? And how often do we hear that any cut in the near-bankrupt Social Security program would loss those over 60 into the streets? Every group depending on the government for its livelihood claims that any cuts in its programs would devastate everything this nation stands for obliterating valued traditions and long-held values...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Getting to No You | 7/26/1985 | See Source »

Barry O'Brien (guitar, no amp) -- O'Brien plays 60s and 70s pop songs, as well as Irish and American folk music. "All the same old stuff everyone likes to hear," he says. He plays Holyoke Center once a week and along Brattle the rest of the time. Sporting long hair and often a bandanna, as well, he enjoys joining other musicians and singing with them. With no permanent home and traveling throughout the country, O'Brien likes to think of himself as a troubadour...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...Marty finally gets his parents back together (advising them that if they ever have an eight year-old son who accidentally sets the living room rug on fire, to "go easy on him.") He also tries to tell Doc Brown, who in his younger days staunchly refuses to hear about the future, of his demise...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Back to Basics | 7/19/1985 | See Source »

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