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Word: movingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, I recognize that the daily, violent removal of facial growth is as good as a requirement for the majority of American men. It is therefore no small piece of news that the Gillette Company is this week unveiling its first new razor in more than a decade. As the...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Shaving 'Til You Disappear | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

Perhaps indecision is a bad thing. Perhaps those students who as sophomores do not find themselves moving toward one clear direction should just stick to one concentration and not worry about their decision. Still, the expense of a Harvard degree and the relatively short period of college education make some...

Author: By James P. Orourke, | Title: Time to Concentrate | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

Taishan bills itself accurately as the "home of the overseas Chinese." The county's 960,000 residents have about 1.2 million relatives living abroad, and much as American Jews send money to Israel in lieu of actually moving there, Taishan's "overseas compatriots" have sent millions home. Since 1982 foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

He has a point, and everyone knows it, even those guests who admit to having hired geomancers to locate and orient their homes, or those who keep black fish in aquariums in order to absorb "bad rays," or those who believe their country's former greatness was attributable to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

At a Guangdong electronics factory, the quality-control officer concedes his own ineptitude. "I graduated in English from Fudan University ((in Shanghai)) and was immediately assigned here," he says. "I don't know anything about the work here, so I can't judge product quality very well. I wish I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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