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Word: needing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he takes the Joint Chiefs job, Powell will need all these skills and more. The Pentagon budget, flat since 1986, is likely to undergo cuts that threaten not only major weapons programs but also the delicate interservice balance that a JCS Chairman must maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Complete Soldier ; Colin Powell | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...opinion with frequent disarmament offers while the President stood pat, waiting for his aides' review of American foreign policy. NATO allies were growing impatient, and Bush's popularity in some polls was inching downward. By early May, despite his public denials of concern, the President was feeling anxious. "I need something," he told his aides. "I want to do something...

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

Each random death--John Belushi's, Andy Warhol's, Rock Hudson's--is tied to the generation's mental state and imbued with cultural and sociological significance. Belushi's taught the generation of the danger of drugs, Hudson's of the need to come together to fight AIDS. Previously, the deaths of '60s heros (the Kennedys and Martin Luther King) made the generation cynical...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Fantasies of a Generation That Can't Forget Its Past | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

...interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout you blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: Grader's Reply: It's Not Really That Easy | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

...would argue that a mother should not take care of herself during pregancy. But it would be dangerous for the state to mandate a certain regimen for pregnant women. We do not need further intrusion of the state into our everyday lives...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: "My Fetus Pleads the Fifth" | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

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