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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...described as being Black, about5'5" tall, and of thin build, with short curlyblack hair and a light complexion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Robber Holds Up Mass. Ave. Clothing Store | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Most of those I meet seem to believe that despite the current retrenchment, China's economy is evolving into one not unlike South Korea's or Taiwan's. And while neither of those nations offers the political freedoms available in the West, both are light-years ahead of China economically. Is that really where China is going, or will the new resemble the old, a return to the Stalinist economic system that even Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to abandon? Will Deng succeed in anointing party chief Jiang Zemin as his successor, and would Jiang, in power, affirm continued economic liberalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...makers also insist that they are not inspiring new smokers but offering better choices for people who already have a taste for nicotine. Says Brenda Follmer, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International, which sells the Winston , and Camel brands: "People say we are trying to make the Asians light up. But they're already lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fuming Over A Hazardous Export | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

When they arrive in Asia, U.S. cigarette producers often try to light up the female and teenage market, a strategy that particularly angers health experts. In Taiwan street peddlers hired by U.S. firms hand out free cigarette samples at discos. Marketers for R.J. Reynolds last year planned to charge five empty packets of its Winston cigarettes as admission to a rock concert in Taiwan but dropped the idea in the face of a public outcry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fuming Over A Hazardous Export | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Palcy's vision of South Africa sheds light on a subject that can definitely...

Author: By Kit Troyer, | Title: Shooting Black and White | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

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