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Word: kid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia Callahan. Remember Mrs. Joel's kid, Billy, from down the street? The greaser who took the piano lessons and had his shifty eye on you? Well, he just wrote a song about you. And you won't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...eighth grade, his family moved to Hoffman Estates, III., where Steve turned into a 6-ft., 7-in. center of a high school team that went 23-4 in his senior year, losing three of those games by only a point. Back in Harlowtown, Irion had been the biggest kid his age, but in Illinois he played guard on his eighth grade team. Incidentally, Irion's father moved back to Billings after Steve graduated from high school because "he couldn't take the big city." The population of Hoffman Estates zoomed to 45,000 inhabitants after the "biggest indoor shopping...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Steve Irion: The Quiet Gun From Harlowtown | 2/10/1978 | See Source »

...Administration was the continuing sour reaction of business to the President's program. As disappointed White House staffers point out, much of the budget and the tax program was especially tailored to please businessmen -but to little avail. Says one aide bitterly: "Business is acting like the kid who after opening 15 presents Christmas morning turns around and asks, 'Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Are Bigger Tax Cuts Ahead? | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...that rumpled Alexander of the television world, Fred Silverman, was running out of worlds to conquer. He started at CBS as a whiz kid just a few years out of college and in twelve years there, culminating as chief programmer for entertainment shows, he helped keep the Big Eye on top. Moving over to ABC as head of entertainment in 1975, he helped push it past CBS to No. 1. That left only NBC, currently bottom tube on network row. Last week, to lure Silverman away from ABC, NBC gave him the store. It named Silverman president and chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NBC: Heady for Freddie | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...which Seaver is playing host this year. At lunch in Manhattan to pitch the show, Williams, 59, who in his heyday earned $125,000 a year, defended today's well-bankrolled athletes, like, say, the $500,000-plus-a-year Reggie Jackson. "I'm envious," sighed the Kid. "I wish I'd a bit more business sense when I was playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1978 | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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