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Word: machos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latins will decry what they perceive as an attempt by Bush to shift the flagging need to battle international communism to an expanded offensive against a new "evil empire," this one based in Medellin. If, as one Colombian commentator warns, Bush attempts to "project the image of the defiant macho," he can expect little cooperation from his Latin friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Seaside Chat About Drugs | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

Primordial dating: Dates between unicellular organisms had to have the perfect chemistry. A macho amoeba would hunker up to a smaller microbacterium, ooze its way around it and ultimately attempt to swallow it whole. This style of dating, known as phagocytosis, made a brief resurgence during the late 1970s...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: ...and a Man's Disillusionment | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...nothing to do with macho and only a little to do with body size. A new study says the biggest factor is that men produce more of an enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Jan. 22, 1990 | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...valuable oil paintings," according to the U.S. State Department -- his chalet in Rio Hato and his 60-acre retreat in Chiriqui province. But he might be able to enjoy some other holdings: luxury apartments in Paris and the Dominican Republic, a Boeing 727, three Learjets and yachts named Macho I, Macho II and Macho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama No Place To Run | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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