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Word: majored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...networks' fall premieres. But this year the hucksterism has gone far beyond the usual "ABC's the One" and "Come Home to NBC" sloganeering on- screen. Ads for network shows will turn up everywhere from billboards to women's hosiery departments. Besides CBS and NBC linkups with major retailers, a third network, Fox, has teamed with Coca-Cola to promote an Isle of Dreams Treasure Hunt. Only ABC is sitting on the sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now for the Hard Sell | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...very clearly writing all this down and Margaret agreeing. My writing may have got a bit illegible towards teatime . . . A few very stiff drinks later, we looked at the list and realised we'd forgotten the Foreign Office, so M. had to ring a little shopwalker figure called Mr. Major who not surprisingly couldn't believe his luck and will no doubt continue to embarrass us in the councils of the nations for many moons to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Is This Denis a Menace? | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

These are just a few of the many questions dealing with multicultural education which have rarely been confronted by educators around the country and which Montero-Seiburth hopes will become a major issue on the national education agenda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broaching the Issue of Multicultural Education in the Nation's Classrooms | 8/8/1989 | See Source »

...following the path from Rome that was trod by missionaries of long ago, the envoys of the Holy See scored major triumphs in Eastern Europe last week. First, with the remarkable assent of the Kremlin, Pope John Paul II named a new bishop for Belorussia, a Soviet republic that borders Poland. It was the first such appointment in 63 years; the region's last Catholic bishop was sent to prison in 1927. The Pontiff then named three new bishops and regularized the status of a fourth to give hard-line Czechoslovakia its fullest hierarchy since the Communists launched a postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Roman Inroads | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Insurers show up just as quickly as the lawyers, seeking through a disputed process known as claim control to keep costs from spiraling. Associated Aviation Underwriters, one of the major airline-liability insurance companies, has already begun the process of talking with survivors and the families of victims of the Sioux City crash, trying to settle their claims quickly and dissuade them from going to court. Says Peter Magee, executive vice president of the company: "If you buy a ticket to get from Point A to Point B, and you don't make it there, then the legal burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Showdown in Sue City | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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