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Word: person (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mlot-Mroz was being dragged away from the rally, one onlooker shouted to the participants, "That's not what Gandhi would do." With that one person, the promise of a positive left and a better America was renewed. Maybe this time it can be fulfilled...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Promise of a Positive Left | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

...annual Take Back the Night week at Harvard can be a union of women against violence, a symbolic show of support for every person's right to control his or her own body or a call for awareness of sexual assault...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Take Back the Campus | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

...Pretty neat, huh?," says VanDyke, as he explains how the equipment is used. "We have the [sashes] as well as SafeStreets' identification so that the person waiting for us can easily recognize us. Each escort pair gets one beeper so that home base can give us our next assignment while we're out walking someone else. And, the particulars about each assignment go in the log book--you know, time of call, whereabouts of caller, destination, escorters' names...

Author: By Liza M. Velazquez, | Title: Walking to Take Back the Night | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...sure. "After 23 years in customs law, you notice that inspectors look for certain things," says Los Angeles attorney Leonard Fertman. "If you're coming from Central America without a camera or luggage and you have a beard, you may spend more time being questioned than another person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Judging A Book by Its Cover | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Beyond providing guidance to agents, drug profiles also catalog the latest nationwide arrest trends. They are constantly updated to keep up with the fertile imaginations of smugglers. Techniques have ranged from hiding drugs in objects -- like suitcases, plaques and aerosol cans -- to concealing them on the person. "I once had an innocent-looking Canadian couple in their 60s come back from a Jamaica holiday wearing body wraps containing 10 lbs. of hashish," recalls Miami Customs supervisory inspector Robert Hessler. Some couriers have been found with contraband stuffed in body orifices, others with cocaine-filled condoms in their stomachs. "Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Judging A Book by Its Cover | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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