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Word: merchant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeland that I had never seen. Although its proliferating population remains China's greatest obstacle to modernization, I agree with White that human envy and appetite are potentially equally dangerous perils. While walking down a bustling Shanghai boulevard, I encountered a swarm of people surrounding a street merchant. What was the object of everyone's smiling fascination? A Rubik's Cube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1983 | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...merchant tried to flag down a cruising police car, Shibutani said, the customer dropped several instruments and fled the store. He remains at large...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Sound of Music Returns to Adams | 9/21/1983 | See Source »

...fallen behind in microelectronics technology." The company has vast financial resources and unquestioned technological prowess, but skeptics wonder if it has enough marketing skill for the fast-moving chip competition. Asks George Gilder in Release 1.0, an electronics-industry newsletter: "Can a monopoly-coddled monster find happiness in the merchant semiconductor mar ket? Can an elephant play jacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chips Are Flying Again | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...their demon is not from outer space or the weirder reaches of the occult. No, Cujo is a junkyard dog. But he is huge. And maddened by rabies. And thoroughly implacable in his need to kill. As he proved in Alligator, Director Lewis Teague is a sly and stylish merchant of fear; as she proved in The Howling, Wallace knows how to play a scared lady; and as he proves on the spot, little Danny Pintauro is an actor of uncommon appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Sep. 12, 1983 | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...proposed solution is a salmon-tagging stratagem similar to one used successfully in Canada. Legally caught salmon are tagged by the head or tail. Anyone-fisherman, merchant, even restaurateur-who handles an untagged fish could be liable to a sizable fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Troubled Waters | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

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