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Word: paper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bridges, upon which sit spectators who think you are a boat of Championship Eight caliber. I felt confident and pulled harder until our cox gave us the encouraging reminder that we had made it half way. This is about as encouraging as a grade from the Government Department: "Excellent paper...

Author: By Steven D. Irwin, | Title: Back of the Head | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

...paper Yale is the favorite, boasting a 5-1 record and a convincing victory over a tough Penn squad that ran all over both Princeton and Harvard. Led by junior Geoff Mearns and old-timer Peter Wehrwein (a senior who took a year off), the guys from New Haven have had a surprisingly successful season to date...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers to Host Big Three Meet Tomorrow | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...crunch made a big front-page splash in just about every newspaper. But the Wall Street Journal, forced by its staid though successful format to use only a single column on page one for the story, had to bury considerable news inside. The paper felt obliged to provide readers with a guide, which ran on the front page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Rough Rides for a Fall | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Getting there proved only half the fun. Some voters were handed accordion-pleated paper ballots a yard wide that listed as many as 841 delegates without offering a clue as to which candidate each was backing. In Dade County, voters had to check off no fewer than 141 names but no more than 188 for their ballots to be valid. In each county, an independent organized labor slate further complicated the options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Premature Poll | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Everett Research Laboratory, contends that new products that promise tidy but unextravagant revenues go unsupported by Big Business even though the initial investment might be low. Says he: "Large companies could care less about the guy who has a $100,000 idea. They'd lose that in the paper-clip account." Such technological triumphs as Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sad State of Innovation | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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