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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

um . . . if you want to leave a message, please wait for the beep because . . . um . . . I don't know . . . otherwise the thing cuts off. Thank you."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mother Finds Herself | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

The assurance came not a moment too soon. Observed a top international banker in London: "The situation is fraught with peril. There are only potential sellers of dollars out there, no buyers at all." Added Giuseppe Tome, an investment banker in Geneva: "The feeling exists in the banking community that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Even if Tehran finally does not default on its debts, the danger is that European and Japanese banks might call in their loans to Iran. The possibility became more acute last week. That was because of an action by an eleven-member international financing syndicate headed by the Chase Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spread off Petrobrinkmanship | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

The usually somnolent annual congressional review of the Federal Trade Commission this year has resembled a West Waterford fox hunt, where packs of baying Irish hounds chase the hapless beast to ground. In both the House and Senate, committees have voted to reduce drastically the commission's powers. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

If nothing else, the me-too familiarity of almost all the leading candidates shows just how intractable the nation's economic problems really are. So far, the challengers to Carter in Campaign 1980 have done little more than rehash the safe, the secure and the unexciting.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Candidates' Me-Too Ideas | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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