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Word: matter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes for a rock-bottom $12,500. No matter. Keep going, keep the average up, aim for $10 million. The first day brings "over $4 million." The three-day total, a satisfied Wilson reports: "upwards of $7½ million." The pub is duly dispatched, to be knocked back into the bits and pieces of wood and glass from which it came and shipped off by container-arriving as one big jigsaw puzzle. The transportation and reassembly may cost as much as the object itself. But, insists Dennis Gibbons of Grand American Fare, "you couldn't build a paneled room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...moderates but including some Sandinistas as well as pro-Somoza conservatives. That plan was rejected by the rebel leaders, partly on the ground that moderate political groups already support the junta and partly because they resented Washington's interference in what they viewed as strictly a Nicaraguan matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Somoza on the Brink | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...final fight is pretty exciting, no matter how bad the rest of the movie may be. So your best bet is to arrive an hour-and-a-half late, catch the fight at the end, sit through the break between showings and watch the initial bout to refresh your memory. Then you'll be ready for Rocky III--"the story continues a little more...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and Scott A. Rosenberg, S | Title: No Future | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

...That matter is in litigation, and we never comment on anything in litigation," Lewis Armistead, community relations assistant in the Office of Government and Community Affairs, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Cambridge Sues Harvard Over Statute | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...book's title emphasizes the discrepancy, in law, between what a witness says on the stand-which could in fact be handed to the jury as a written transcript-and how he says it, his general demeanor, the matter of flesh-and-blood delivery that sways a jury. All four stories are told in the first person by young men who loosely share some common characteristics. An ex-college wrestler is given brief command of his squad during his own basic training and learns that trying to be fair is a kind of condescension. A sophisticated Eastern writing teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The I of the Beholder | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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