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Word: knowns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, voters will be faced with a referendum known as Proposition 1-2-3 that could reduce by thousands the number of rent-controlled apartments in a city where more than 70 percent of residents do not own their own homes...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Registering Concern for Our City | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...launched by the Air Force burned up over the Pacific, tripling the amount of radioactive plutonium 238 in the environment. It is not clear what health effects that might have had. The generators were then redesigned, and in two subsequent accidents in which spacecraft broke apart, no radioactivity is known to have escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Nuclear Fears About Galileo | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...path to respectable citizenship. But the all-volunteer armed forces eliminated that option for what are now called youthful offenders. In a growing number of states, however, the purported benefits of paramilitary discipline are being showered on young criminals through programs known as "shock incarceration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock Incarceration | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...come to be known as the "chocolate milk" debate, and for the last year it's shadowed the Undergraduate Council's every move...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Chocolate Milk Politics or Something More? | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...didn't trip the girl in the box," Montalbano said afterwards. "I thought about tripping her, but I didn't do it. The ref was awful. I think he was looking to call something. A good ref would have known that if I was going to trip her, I'd do it at the 12, not the four...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Women Booters Topped by UConn, 2-0 | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

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