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Word: hosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Texas, the meet's host, swiped the team high-point trophy, with Florida grabbing second and Stanford taking third overall. Boston University, Brown and Princeton were the only other Eastern teams represented in Austin with one swimmer apiece...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Finish in 17th Place at NCAA Swimming Meet | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

Harvard will be trying to snatch the Ivy League crown away from host Brown April...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Ruggers Drop Holy Cross, 6-4 | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...must be filed by some of the taxpayers who have taken out home-equity loans or refinanced their dwellings since August 1986. To determine their taxes, those homeowners must explain how they spent the proceeds, what the home originally cost, exactly how much was spent on improvements, and a host of other figures. Most contributions to individual retirement accounts have been eliminated as a deduction, but those who have put money in nondeductible IRAs must now tangle with the thorny Form 8606. Also newly infamous is Form 8582, on which taxpayers have to come to grips with the sharply reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in A Brier Patch of Changes | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Norrington is just as effective with the public, addressing the festival audience with the easy urbanity of a BBC talk-show host. At an open rehearsal, he gave the downbeat for the combative fugue that opens Romeo, then stopped after a few minutes to quip, "It's like riding the foot-plate of a steam - locomotive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Only Poetry Played Here | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...campaign is not simply a remake of the Walter Mondale-Gary Hart spats of four years ago. Despite some differences on foreign policy, Gore and Dukakis represent much the same style of end-to-ideology Democratic pragmatism. Gore prospered in Congress by stressing a host of technocratic issues, ranging from the ozone layer to organ transplants. Ever since his comeback victory as Governor in 1982, Dukakis has artfully avoided most of the pitfalls of free-spending liberalism. His major initiatives, like welfare reform and industrial development, were designed to blur ideological differences rather than accentuate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three-Way Gridlock | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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