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Word: importantally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though most of the $2 trillion rise in equity values has been paper profit, some of it has been cashed in by sellers of stock and has found its way into purchases of houses, cars, jewelry, and college educations for children. In addition, many households have borrowed against their stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bang-Bang Birthday | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

And then along came Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher whose Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus redefined and reduced the scope of the discipline. Says Martin: "As I studied the history of philosophy, the quest for ultimate truth became less important to me, and by the time I got to Wittgenstein it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sensational Steve Martin | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Once again art was carrying the kind of meanings that abstraction could not convey, and these were picked up by a second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of The Wall's Shadow | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Most important, Aspillaga said he will give U.S. officials the names of 350 Cuban agents who have penetrated foreign governments -- after sufficient time has passed for these compaeros to return safely to Cuba. Intelligence analysts expect that the list will cripple Cuba's covert intelligence-gathering capability for several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spilled Beans: A defector bares Cuban secrets | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

As Bender follows Columbia's history, he tells a tale of how, in the late 1800s, higher education became more important to society but never capitulated to the code of the surrounding streets. Change would have meant a more open admissions policy and a more independent faculty, but Columbia resisted...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: The Burden of New York's Intellectuals | 8/21/1987 | See Source »

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