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Word: paragraphs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such excessively poetic descriptions soon become tiresome, the moreso because Naipaul keeps on repeating them. In one paragraph, for example, he tells us three times that hay is warm and golden...

Author: By Vindu P. Goel, | Title: Oxford Blues | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...uncertain situation. At their gathering, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker undoubtedly emphasized the same understated point he had made to a Senate committee earlier in the week, when he said, "Further sizable depreciation of the dollar could well be counterproductive." The ministers emerged wearily after nightfall with a three-paragraph statement. Its thrust was a reaffirmation of a declaration made by virtually the same group last February in Paris that the dollar's value should remain "around current levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dollar Gets No Respect | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Pippert has approached journalistic truth in ways he says were criticized as unconventional. As UPI's Middle East bureau chief, he beefed up coverage of the West Bank, filling the wire with short, three-to-four paragraph dispatches about conditions in the controversial Israeli territory...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: IOP Fellow Considers the Ethics of Journalism | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

...letter from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee in yesterday's edition of The Crimson contained a typographical error. A sentence in the third to last paragraph should have read, "Instead, the University appears to have acted according to a predetermined plan which left no scope for any legitimate and peaceful act of civil disobedience which would not have prevented the speech from continuing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRECTION | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...with lively ideas. His theme is "dare to be different," and he advocates, among other things, taxing the Social Security benefits of couples with incomes above $32,000 a year. Among Babbitt's problems: he never seems to speak a sentence when he can get by with a paragraph. Though he has a proficient campaign organization, he is as dark as dark horses come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Enter Babbitt, Repeatedly | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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