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Word: inform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meeting twice each semester in which the delegates of each House inform all House residents of assembly activities and solicit suggestions...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Assembly Elects New Officers, Selects Cornfeld as Chairman | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...challenge, says Holmes, is "to present statistics as a visual idea rather than a tedious parade of numbers. Without being frivolous, I want to entertain the reader as well as inform him." In some cases, the very curves of plotted statistics suggest an image. Thus the lines on this week's Business graph tracing OPEC's contribution to inflation became the band of an Arab headdress. "I have to be careful to choose the right symbols," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...does a President need to do but look important and say "yes" and "no" in the right places?" The friend is convinced; Walraff tells him to wear a tie and buy an attache-case to make himself look important. The friend sets to his task, and Walraff returns to inform the impatient General that the President...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reporter | 2/9/1980 | See Source »

...four candidates complained the department did not inform them of the procedures and criteria on which they were judged...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Promotional Problems | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...mass spectrometer. This device, by bombarding the drug molecules with ions (charged particles), produces a pattern, or "fingerprint," of the unknown chemical. Since each drug's fingerprint is unique to it, the chemical can be readily identified. If a forbidden drug is detected, the Olympic medical commission will inform the chief of the athlete's delegation of the incriminating results, and a test on the refrigerated sample is done. If the first results are confirmed, the game is forfeited and the athlete may face losing a medal and being disqualified from the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Patrol | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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