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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The situation is wonderful enough, evidently, to make it seem economically sensible to pay $10,000 for several pieces of stained glass put together into a ceiling that might have cost $1,000 a few years ago. ("So it's gotta be worth $20,000 in a coupla years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Which is not to say, not at all, that John Wilson is trying to fool anybody. If a paneled room with baronial fireplace happens to be from London's Barclays Bank, he says so, and an Oklahoma City developer is pleased indeed to buy it for $32,500. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

If Carter is to pull his presidency out of its nosedive and have a fighting chance of being renominated and re-elected in 1980, he will have to come down from the Catoctin Mountains with a dramatic answer to that question because at week's end the explanation for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Was Speechless | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

If history is a guide, there really is no one who can tell Carter how he should lead. It must come from within him. That is the worry. He has little sense of history, nor has he proved himself to be an imaginative man. These may be fatal flaws.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Push a Nation Beyond Itself | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Speaking to a group of Soviet officials, Byrd cautioned that Moscow would "not contribute to a constructive discussion of the treaty" by expecting the Senate to be the White House's rubber stamp. Byrd was presumably alluding to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's statement that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Civics Lesson | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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