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Word: permanente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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If English movies of the '80s had a team like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, David Lodge's funny, adroit Nice Work would make an ideal vehicle for them. The novel's protagonist, Vic Wilcox, is a gruff but keen-witted exec struggling to turn around a laggard steel-parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romance, Of Course, Blooms | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

The high points: a space station longer than a football field orbiting 220 miles above the earth; permanent living quarters on the near side of the moon constructed out of lunar metals and used as a base for mining oxygen-rich moon rocks; then, sometime during the 21st century, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: No Free Launch | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

The Polish hierarchy said last week that the improved relations "will open new spheres of activity for the church for the benefit of the whole society," as well as enhance Poland's international prestige. Warsaw's progovernment daily Zycie Warszawy declared in an editorial that the Vatican is obviously convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Longer Poles Apart | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

Another logical stepping-stone is a lunar base, which could be built by 2000, as a testing ground for technologies necessary for a Martian sojourn. In particular, astronauts would experiment with living quarters in which air and water are recycled. Inhabitants of a lunar base would also begin learning how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Next Giant Leap for Mankind | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Americans should not accept the current unjust and impractical scheme that divides our society, wastes billions of taxpayers' dollars, perpetuates the existence of a permanent underclass and masquerades as advancing the best interests of minorities and society as a whole.

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Perpetuating Racism Through Affirmative Action | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

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