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Word: modeli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ivory trail leading out of Africa varies according to the latest regulation and the current loophole. In recent years ivory has been smuggled aboard every mode of transportation, from commercial jetliners to the single- masted dhows that ply the ancient sea routes of the Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...traditionally "political" topic of divestment centers on the same underlying issue: the administration's unilateral mode of decision-making and its refusal to listen to opposing views. This is not to claim that the plights of Harvard students and of South African Blacks are similar. Rather, it is to say that Harvard's governing bodies and administrators are equally willing to ignore the concerns of both groups in the interest of convenience...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Serving Students With Politics | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

...wing of his own party. If he has hit no grand slams, neither has he committed any egregious errors. "I'm reasonably pleased where, at the end of six months, things are," Bush told TIME. "I'm not relaxed about it. I'm not in an everything's fine mode at all. But in terms of how the decisions are made, I'm very pleased with the way our team is operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: Mr. Consensus | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...looks so disdainfully on the Freudian philosophy, Barker just can't seem to grasp the fact that the world does not revolve around his penis. While his academic work is on the cutting edge of his field, his brain--and his body--are still operating in a 1950s mode...

Author: By Ennifer M. Frey, | Title: Sexism and Slime in the Psychology Department | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

Behind the scenes, the Administration was working in a crisis mode. In private Bush described himself as going through "the most difficult time of my presidency," and by week's end the strain in his face was pronounced. To save Cicippio, the State Department set up a round-the-clock hostage task force, while the White House launched a diplomatic rescue effort that one U.S. envoy called "a full-court press on everybody we know." Characteristically, the President worked the phone with the heads of state of most European allies and nations in the Middle East -- with the notable exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Again: A grisly image of a dead hostage outrages the U.S. | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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