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Word: objection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they wanted to do was make eating English-style pizza more fun. They just wanted to let customers enjoy their meals with a frosty mug of beer or a sparkling glass of wine. That's pretty hospitable, nothing anyone could object...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: All This for a Pint O' Beer | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The International Cometary Explorer whipped through the tail of an obscure apparition called Giacobini-Zinner, thereby becoming the first man-made object to encounter a comet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Upstaging of Halley's Armada | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...that are repatriated from from that country and find their way into company dividends make up only a tiny portion of the funds we receive from our equity holdings. Those who feel that even this amount is enough to condemn these stocks have difficult questions to answer. Do they object to students who take jobs with IBM, Ford, Exxon and other companies who do business in South Africa and take money from these firms in the form of wages rather than dividends? Do they object to buying Coca Cola, Kellogg's Corn Flakes and other products of such companies, thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Letter Sweeps South Africa Issue | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...after 15 years of service in a job that is arguably the single best preparation for the job of College dean. The job will go to another in the line of white males who have held it for time immemorial. This appointment provides observers of the Harvard scene an object lesson in the resilience of the old boys' network. It is not a surprise. It is a shame. Jeffrey R. Toobin '82 Paul A. Engelmayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Dean | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...Marilyn. Perhaps he has been reading Norman Mailer, for he, too, sees her as more than the apotheosis of sex appeal. The woman who once sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" and died of a mysterious overdose comes to embody maligned femininity everywhere. Treated as a sex object she resigns herself to scoring all her points by means of sex. She is forced into a role that suffocates and ultimately kills...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Odd Couple | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

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