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Word: pasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annual reports do not normally reach a broad public. In past years, no more than 300,000 people received the G&W report. But the company believes that a wider audience can find the report instructive. Hence this advertisement, which will be seen by 22 million TIME readers in the U.S. and Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 5, 1979 | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...citizens of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In a chill evening wind, the shrubs seem afflicted and huddled in gloom along streets as empty as Sagebrush at midnight. And, I discover as hunger mounts, Faye has closed her restaurant and moved the mobile home. The old Plains may be buried past finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Strong Old Rhythms of Plains | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...short streets still show the mildly abraded middle-class homes of the past 90 years. The one long block of South Hudson Street still shows black hovels in what seems permanently frozen collapse. No sign of pork-barrel public works or decor (beyond merciful provision for human excretion), no Carter statues yet, no rumors of veiled Saudi peanut takeovers. And any conversation with a longtime resident is likely to reveal that, under some genuine annoyance with the present, the spiritual structures of the past are standing, for better or worse, and straining to survive till Jimmy is a private citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Strong Old Rhythms of Plains | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...each other in the GOP trying to take credit for the Tax Revolt, the Second American Revolution. And all asking "Who Lost China?" and saying "Guns Don't Kill People, Inflation Kills People." The Republicans seem to think they have a chance of winning, since Watergate has long since past and Carter comes off looking inept and confused. Which probably accounts for why Carter was willing to take so much criticism from supporters in the Democratic Party for bringing Nixon to the White House to meet Deng Xiao-Ping. Carter may have claimed that Deng, now widely praised by Peking...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Once More With Feeling | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard women's squash team started off its campaign for the Howe Cup on the right foot yesterday, sweeping past Wesleyan and Penn in New Haven, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetwomen Off to Quick Start | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

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