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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saucers, holistic medicine, tarot cards and you name it, the word spread: the sky is falling. Alternate version: let's have a party, potluck, and bring your own drums. A Palo Alto, Calif., outfit called Global Family set up a telephone network. And since this is August and there isn't much news, the press got out its own drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Age Dawning | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...week the FBI arrested him for possessing a 1904 letter signed by Novelist Henry James that had been missing from the Library of Congress. Five days earlier Mount had been charged with stealing letters written by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Said Special FBI Agent W. Douglas Gow: "This isn't just one or two documents. It's a piece of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Papers | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...that his injuries from the booby-trapped loot entitle him to $2 million in damages. Stanford Law Professor Marc Franklin says Candelairo could have a case "if he can prove that the intent of the bank was to cause him physical injury." "The punishment for bank robbery," he adds, "isn't maiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chutzpah: Whose Fault Is It Anyway? | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...Anthony isn't clocking yet, but says he's considering it. He wants a pocketful of cash like the drug dealers have. He envies their "fly" cars and the pretty women who admire them. "Even if I worked hard and got a car, I can't get the women without the drugs," he insists. "Nowadays you're not 'down' unless you're doing drugs or selling drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down And Out And No Place to Go | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...this?' " But the answer came to him even before he became the first three-time Pan Am champion of the three-meter springboard. "I still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis tasted second place for the first time in a while. "But second place isn't losing," he said. "If I learn something from a competition, I can be second to last and still come out a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heavy Harps and Pan Am Heroes | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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