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Word: particularized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such feelings--for a fee. But there are limits to what men and women can know about their own bodies or their own psyches, and they remain even when technology makes it possible for one woman to bear a child for another. No one can predict what feelings a particular pregnancy might inspire well enough to put a price on them...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...advantage the Final Four has over football's Super Bowl, in particular, is the compression of time. Always preoccupied with the opponent at hand and left only one weary day to turn to the final game Monday night, no one is overcoached or overprepared. "You have no choice but to be concerned with your own team," Newell says, "to coach in positives and make your own promises to yourself." No event delivers so reliably on its promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coming to The Four with More | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...users master the new complexities of phones, they find that the gadgets save them time and energy. Businesses, in particular, report that high-tech phones increase productivity and cut travel costs by making it possible to meet and swap information by phone line instead of by airline. Says Gary Handler, vice president of network planning for Bell Communications Research, the engineering arm for the local telephone companies: "The telephone network of the next generation will be capable of doing almost anything the public wants. The only question: Is the public ready?" If the speed with which smart telephones are appearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones Get Smart | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Feminist criticism is not intended to work as a particular propoganda. It attempts to open thought through the development of new questions, new interpretations. Such an aim would be far more effective were courses on women's effective were courses on women's issues and writing incorporated into a variety of concentrations...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: A Study of Women's Studies | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...naked eye happened only 32 years later, in 1604, in the constellation Ophiuchus, and its best-remembered witness was Brahe's former assistant Johannes Kepler. Unlike most supernovas, this one was seen before it reached maximum brightness, so Kepler's descriptions of the blazing star are of particular interest to astronomers. His observations would have been even more detailed and valuable had they been made with a telescope. Unfortunately, the star's timing was off. The supernova lighted the night skies just a scant five years before Galileo made the first documented telescopic scan of the heavens, discovering mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supernova! | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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