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Word: maines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lord's main sin was that he had served as a close aide to Henry Kissinger, whom Helms Republicans and Jackson Democrats will forever blame for detente and SALT. Now that is bipartisanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Trouble on the Home Front | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...snowman in their front yard and even piled flakes into the hot tub. "I don't ever remember snow," said Debbie, 12. "It was fun." Not for everybody. More than 10,000 customers lost electrical power, and drifts forced the closing of parts of Interstate 5, California's main north-south artery, causing monumental traffic jams. The unusual weather left thousands of vacationers moping in Palm Springs and did frost damage to citrus groves and flowers scheduled to be picked for Valentine's Day. By the next day, though, most of the snow had melted, disappearing as suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: A Blizzard in Tinseltown | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Neither is the plot in which writer Wesley Strick and director Joseph Ruben (himself something of a cult figure for The Stepfather two years ago) enmesh him. Eddie's main business may be straightforward enough: to free from Sing Sing a Korean American named Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who is doing hard, not to say life-threatening time for a murder he did not commit. But the path to belated justice is a sleazy maze, twisted as a paranoiac's logic. A key witness is a man who believes the telephone company assassinated John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond The Fringe | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...will inevitably get to know a lot of people on the buses that cruise down the main streets of Nassau during the day. Life is easier in the Bahamas: there are no bus stops and it costs just $.50. To stop a passing bus just wave your hand at the driver. To get off, just yell out "Bus Stop." Sound simple...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Imagine the Perfect Getaway Place | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...main highway connecting Kabul to the Soviet Union, which Soviet troops had used to withdraw, remained open, according to Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and Bakhtar, the Afghan news agency, Tass said more than 100 trucks carrying Soviet food and supplies were bound for the Afghan capital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Najib Says Peace Possible Within Weeks | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

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