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Word: perlis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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James, who is averaging 14.2 points per game, is shooting only 41 percent from the field and 67 percent from the foul line this season. He is second on the team in rebounding, pulling down 5.2 caroms per game...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Good and Bad | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

Phillips' 10.3 points per game ranks him fourth on the team behind Gielen (15.0), James (14.2) and Ron Mitchell...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Good and Bad | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

Cambridge's water supply has a history of contamination, according to Water Superintendant James J. Cusack, Jr. The level of sodium in city water is 43 milligrams per liter--more than double the 20 milligrams per liter limit set by state...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Barrett Seeks Water Protection | 2/15/1989 | See Source »

...make more steel per worker, the industry carried out a long-overdue modernization drive. As recently as 1974, one-quarter of all steel in the U.S. was still being produced by old-fashioned open-hearth furnaces, which take eight hours to turn molten iron into steel, compared with 45 minutes for the more efficient oxygen-fired furnaces. Since 1982, American steel companies have poured $9 billion into upgrading their mills. Open hearths now produce only 5% of domestic steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Steel Is Red Hot Again | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...each use, perfect for a country in which 1 out of 5 women refuses to use a Western-style toilet outside the home. For ladies who do not want to waste water but wish to maintain decorum -- according to TOTO's investigations, women flush an average of 2.5 times per visit to drown out potentially embarrassing or offensive noises -- there is the Oto Hime (Sound Princess), which plays a recording of flushing water. "We want to change the toilet from a space that one wants to do without to a space where one can relax," says Fujita spokesman Kazuyuki Kume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: King for A Day | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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