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Word: lookingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The haggard figure leaning against a lamppost outside a branch of Paris' famed Drugstore bore so little resemblance to the familiar newspaper photograph that no one even gave him a second glance. Yet for more than two months, thousands of police had been combing through much of France looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Empain's Ordeal | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Forum shopping: looking for a court with favorable precedents, a friendly judge or a home-town jury.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Boxcars and Rainmakers: A Glossary | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Consumer prices in February jumped at an annual rate of 7.4%-not as bad as January's 10%, but quite bad enough. For the third month in a row, prices rose faster than wages, and workers' purchasing power declined. The index of leading indicators, those figures that are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Punk Quarter | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Can putting together two weaknesses make a strength? Profit-pinched American Motors Corp. has been openly looking for a foreign carmaker with which to form some kind of partnership. Last week AMC revealed the company that it is focusing on-not, as rumored, Peugeot, but the French government-owned Renault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AMC Liaison | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

But most flatlanders find that mountains stimulate both imagination and curiosity. Looking at pinnacles never seems to be enough; sooner or later, mountain gazers begin to wonder if there is room at the top.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking Up | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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