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Word: paged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...folder containing his prepared answers to those questions that had been submitted in advance and then answered additional questions from TIME'S delegation. The contents of the folder became an immediate souvenir for Nelan; the answers were typed in Russian, with Brezhnev's signature on the last page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...vague generality is a key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to the grader. The true master of the generality is the student who can write a ten page essay that means nothing at all to the writer, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...defies belief that Frank Trippett could write a full page on the '70s without one word about inflation [Dec. 251. If there is anything future generations will recall about this decade, it will be the disappearance of the 25? hamburger, the 10? Coke and the $5 three-martini lunch. E.L. Estes Jr. Racine, Wis. Eying Evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...General Services Administration weighed in with yet another report, entitled "Economic Factors Associated with Paper Sizes." It claimed, among other things, that the larger size would reduce by 5% the number of times a secretary needs a second page to finish a letter. Each second page, it went on, costs 4.60 (including charges for the secretary's retirement benefits and depreciation of her chair and her typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Paper Chase | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...next day the Tribune grabbed Stein for an interview, and the electronic media soon followed. Not to be outdone, the Trib pulled a scoop of its own: An enormous page one photograph of Gacy chained to his jail bed. The guard who sold the photo to the paper was fired. On New Year's Eve, both papers ran special sections. The Sun-Times's "Weird World of John Wayne Gacy" featured an interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

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