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Word: leafed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only one doctor, a Vietnamese "adviser." Some 500 patients are crammed into the hospital in Kompong Speu, which has only 200 beds. The facility has no laboratory to analyze blood or urine or any means of boiling water. Outside the compound is a cluster of bamboo and palm-leaf huts housing 89 grievously undernourished orphans, whose bloated stomachs and matchstick limbs are signs of severe deficiencies. The staple of their woefully inadequate diet: powdered milk mixed with water trucked in from a river near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: There Is Nothing, Monsieur | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Rather than lay out $400 for an off-brand color TV that may have to be replaced in a few years, consumers are choosing $600 and $700 Sonys, the industry's standard of excellence, whose sales are up substantially. At Beverly Hills' trendy Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop, the all-metal $99.50 Eva brand coffee maker outsells by 3 to 1 the part plastic $79.95 Braun coffee brewer. Sales of Kodak's low-priced Instamatic cameras have been sluggish, but sales are really clicking for Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras, which retail for some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Buyers Swing to Quality | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...issue was just an excuse. They should pick on the big institutions, not just bug on the leaf like us," Freedgood said...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Cambridge May Bar Buddhist Occupancy | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...dark yellow bee...She felt her heart being eaten from below the way a tomato is eaten when it brushes the ground...Enthusiasm spread like a disease bacillus in a kissing game...Cows moved slowly over the fields crossing the veins of tiny streams, like white worms on a leaf." This fertility of his imagery becomes explicitly sexual in a young man's sense of spring...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Real McKay | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...They think the country and the economy are going to pot," says Jeffrey Gushing, a Massachusetts gold dealer. Coins, including the 1-oz. South African Krugerrand and the new 1-oz. Canadian Maple Leaf, which went on sale in the U.S. this month, are the most popular buys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Glitter That Is Gold | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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