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Word: nothingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the 15 years since the Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have We Gone Too Far? | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Is nothing sacred? After church leaders set about updating the United Methodist Hymnal in 1984, their most controversial acts were to excise one of the most popular hymns in the Protestant repertoire, Onward Christian Soldiers, and to strip verses from The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The literal-minded rationale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing Hymns and Hers | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

The crowd began to gather silently last Monday afternoon on the streets adjoining the Boerio Supermarket in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. The tin-roofed grocery store had served its middle-class neighborhood for years, so manager Luis Nicastro recognized many of the well-dressed people outside the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall and Fall of Argentina | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

As the industry's top snob, Wylie makes it his duty to malign agents who represent books he considers vulgar. He has called Janklow the literary equivalent of a heroin dealer for handling novels by authors like Judith Krantz. "They have no lasting value and two years after they've...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Naughty Schoolboy | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Besides, Gingrich has been spoiling for fights since he arrived in Congress in 1979, outspokenly intent on changing the tone of the Republicans' minority- party congeniality. He repeatedly clashed with Wright's predecessor, Tip O'Neill, and has survived two attempts by the Democratic congressional campaign committee to target him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Pit Bull | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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