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Word: lefting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field goal attempt by Bucknell's Steve Barimo with 20 seconds left in the game hit the crossbar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Streak Ends: Bruins Shock Big Red | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that the common good can best be bought with public money. But by the time he left office, Venezuela was suffering from a massive deficit and high inflation, which were followed by a recession and crippling foreign debt when the oil boom turned to bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: Abroad Pereztroika | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Nowhere was the shock greater than on Wall Street, where some traders had left work early Friday to enjoy a balmy Indian summer day. "I was on the floor until 2:30," said specialist Stone. "The trading was so quiet that I decided to go home." But by the time he got there shortly after 3, the damage was already out of control. "I saw quite a bit of panic selling," said Muriel Siebert, who heads a discount brokerage that bears her name. UAL shares fell 5 1/2 points before trading in its stock was halted because the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom, Ka-boom! | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Discipline is not what Congress is best at. It prefers being a dispenser of largesse to being a moral policeman or stern taskmaster. Leadership is generally left to the President. Yet George Bush seems to have as much trouble as ever with "the vision thing." Handcuffed by his simplistic "read my lips" campaign rhetoric against a tax increase as well as by his cautious personality, Bush too often appears self-satisfied and reactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Federal Government: The Can't Do Government | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Many Hispanic journalists with established careers in the so-called mainstream press are attracted to these ventures because of the opportunity to focus exclusively on the Latino community. Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban who was senior editor of the Miami Herald, left to join Univision, where he heads the news department. Univision anchorwoman and producer Teresa Rodriguez has turned down offers from Good Morning, America and two NBC affiliates, preferring to cover Hispanic America in depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dancing to The Latino Beat | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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