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Word: personation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only person who handled the situation with class was Landry himself. He said that he felt no bad feelings about his firing and that his firing and that his relationship with the Cowboys had ended...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Silence in Dallas and Madness in March | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

...legislative branch is not my strong suit," she says, explaining that she prefers to be in a policy-making position because she is not a "detail person...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: From Kentucky to Kennedy School, Former Governor Mixes Family, Job | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...know there's a problem in that area," said Paolillo. "We have to be sure we have probable cause before we can stop someone. Without violating some person's constitutional rights, I think we're being as aggressive...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: Healy Agrees to Beef Up Patrols To Fight Growing Drug Problem In Columbia St. Neighborhood | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

...think so," Allison says. She is not a contentious person, but she can't abide what seems to be imprecision. "That implies that people who don't climb don't feel life sharply. Children feel life sharply . . ." "O.K., you're probably right," says Luce amiably. "Strike that last answer." What next? Allison, the house framer, has gone back into contracting. She and her boyfriend want to spend a lot of time kayaking. And there is some $60,000 still owing (of the $250,000 total cost) on the expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climbing Mount Everest: What It Takes To Reach the Summit | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...notoriously abandoned the longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination -- is now being treated as if it were a heretic's pamphlet; The Satanic Verses has been turned from a book into a talking point. With the drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Prosaic Justice All Around | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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