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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This month, the two leaders met once again, and once again promised cooperation. But this time the Carter administration should stick by its commitments to Mexico. On moral grounds, the U.S. should always treat its less powerful allies with the same respect it accords more influential nations. And in light of Mexico's discovery of vast reserves of oil and gas, the United States would certainly not be acting contrary to its own self-interest to give Mexico the respect it deserves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carter and Mexico: Take Two | 2/27/1979 | See Source »

...decades), with his employers. Nor does he skimp on such intimate details as the site and sound of his introduction to extra marital sex. "What it amounts to is that she seduced me," writes Asimov in apparent amazement. "I just followed along, with my teeth more or less chattering, and not out of passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...icemen did not allow the "Here we go again" feeling to sink in, however. Leading goal scorer David Burke, left unmolested in the slot, responded less than two minutes later with a power play tally, his 16th of the season...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Icemen Destroy Colgate, 10-2 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Fajtova said she feels that knowing about the possible change before the weekend's races would have helped the team's performance. "Being in Division II would be a big hassle in terms of transportation; and there would be much less incentive for us to try to improve, since the other skiers would not be as good," she explained...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Ski Squads Place Tenth at Middlebury | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Some of the individual works on display are very good, although perhaps less significant to sweeping movements in modern art than their creators believe. Mags Harries' whimsical idea of using gloves--in piles, gripping rails, pushing imaginary buttons--as a constant image that the passenger follows from one point of the station to another is amusing, even if the philosophy behind is somewhat extravagant. The gloves, she writes in an explanation of her works, "are anthropomorphic objects with many character possibilities and by their multiplication, take on a life form that might be analgous to the people movement...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Take the Red Line... Please | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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