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Word: majority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy. "We're going to raise hell on Taiwan," pledges Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt. "We're going to be heard on the Middle East." His views are echoed by moderate G.O.P. Newcomer William Cohen of Maine: "We seem to be committed to a course of withdrawal from major parts of the world, which raises questions about our reliability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cautious Senate Begins | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...Major coke dealers have bought furniture factories, which churn out coke-filled lamps and stools for the discerning buyer. Forty pounds of coke was recently seized in a load of South American furniture being trucked from Grand Rapids to Detroit. Compressing machines have allowed exporters to conceal their coke inside products ranging from record jackets to water skis. Cocaine can even be dissolved in liquor or perfume (it is easily recovered after passing customs). Water containing dissolved cocaine can be soaked into cotton clothes and retrieved days later with a loss of only about 10%. Middle-size traders often hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...dedicated undergraduates, the necessary juggling of both his and their priorities, he will learn soon enough. In the process of adapting, I am convinced he will devise a new or more efficient system for integrating drama into the undergraduate curriculum--even if he is unable to create a drama major or department at Harvard...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Beautiful Music Together | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

Fisher played a major role in developing concepts of design that underlie such American innovations as the shopping center and the functional modern house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Fisher, GSD Proffessor, Dies at 75 | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

...most obvious comment is that the major teams have taken a John Belushi-like bellyflop the last four years. The football team, once the Ivy title-winner, lost to Cornell and Columbia--in the same season. The soccer team, once an NCAA regional contender, now can't beat (ulp) MIT. And the hockey team, once a perennial ECAC playoff qualifier, has become a not-so-very-funny joke...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of Soldiers Field | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

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