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Word: importantally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary, the special emphasis on passenger safety, and this train annunciator system is a very important component." The subway group decided to install the system after a test site at the Red Line's Shawmut stop operated successfully for six years, said...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Computer Voice to Herald Arrival of Subway Trains | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

No one would deny that Stephen Biko's story is an important one. No one would deny that apartheid's opponents need all the support they can get. No one would deny that the bottom line, so far as Universal Pictures is concerned, is making a few million bucks. The...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: Oscar the Grouch | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

Using complex statistical analyses, the Finns ruled out every potential cause for the benefit except higher HDL levels. Says Antonio Gotto, a cholesterol expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: "The garden- variety person with cardiovascular disease, maybe 60% of heart-attack patients, has a low HDL level and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Battle of the Lipoproteins | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

What, then, to do about the use of a substance that is not intrinsically immoral but that society wants to discourage because of its potential for harm? We have muddled through to a fairly good compromise: make the use illegal, but be extremely circumspect about enforcing the law. Illegality is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Ginsburg Test: Bad Logic | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

As if to confirm Fahd's waning authority, his proxy in Amman, Crown Prince Abdullah, played an important role in persuading Syria's Assad to moderate his views. Moreover, the absence of the Saudi monarch served, as it turned out, to cast more of the spotlight on Jordan's Hussein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East A Radical Returns to the Ranks | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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