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Word: let (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working, is it, Seymour? It isn't feeling right.' " The two discussed options short of a total split, but Cray kept pressing. "It's almost like he forced me to turn the page," says Rollwagen. "He said, 'Isn't there ((an option)) that would be even cleaner? Let's get on to that one.' It just became very clear to the two of us that this was the right thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Chip off the Old Block | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, May 24, 8 p.m. EDT). Bob totes his one-liners to Paris to celebrate the French Revolution's bicentennial. Bet he can't top "Let them eat cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 29, 1989 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...lofty, but for the thousands of people who trudge through the criminal-justice system daily and who speak no English, the phrase means literally nothing. For many of these defendants, the words are also legally empty. American justice for those who do not comprehend English is anything but uniform, let alone understandable. There are no nationwide standards for court interpreters, little training and virtually no monitoring. "Everybody gets a piece of due process," says David Fellmeth, a senior court interpreter in New York City. "But how big a piece depends on the interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Libertad And Justicia for All | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...inmates. Nearly 628,000 convicted criminals, more than the population of Milwaukee, are bursting the seams of federal and state lockups. An additional 150,000 languish in local jails, sometimes for months, awaiting trial. Some prisons are so crowded that in many states authorities have no choice but to let inmates loose just to accommodate the stream of new arrivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Bulging Prisons | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...would have blamed the Crimson, at game's end, for falling flat onto the turf, for crying? The biggest game of the year had just ended in cruel disappointment. Let it all hang...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Smiling Face of Defeat | 5/24/1989 | See Source »

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