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Word: maines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell was the preliminary fight, while B.C., the third-ranked team in the east, was the main event, But like Mike Tyson, the Harvard women's tennis team recorded knockouts...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Blank Red, Edge Out Eagles, 5-3 | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 1, 1989 | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Overall, these jurisdictions hope to raise an extra $5.1 billion next year. More than a third of that would be levied in just three Northeastern states -- Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut. The main sources of new revenue are so-called sin taxes on smoking and drinking. Confronting a deficit of as much as $300 million in Massachusetts, Dukakis has proposed tobacco- and alcohol-tax increases as well as a phased 10 cents rise in the gasoline tax, to 21 cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dread My Lips Not Bush's, but those of the Governors asking for taxes | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...students did not try to occupy the square, but continued their march down Changan Boulevard, the capital's main thoroughfare. Students said they had scored a victory by reaching the square and wanted to continue their march around the city to reach as many people as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Demand Reforms | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

This brings us to Video Sickness's other main problem: clips that are not allowed to end before they have, in the words of one of my favorite professors, thoroughly tenderized the proverbial dead horse. The longest sketch, one about "drinking and dating," starts off on a weak premise-- a twist on studies of the effects of drinking and driving--and actually becomes less humorous as it drags...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Sickness with a Cure | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

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