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Word: poole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Testimony during the trial, which became the subject of national attention and was broadcast on cable television, indicated the victim stopped at the tavern to buy cigarettes, and took someone's offer to stay and drink and watch pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Convicted in Big Dan's Case Appeal Verdict | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...addition, each house receives its share ofthe meal pool and $6000 apiece for improvementsand alterations, except Dudley which receives only...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Students, Professors Satisfied by House Anti-Intellectual Life | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...their release. Which is why Emcee Jones is nervous. He doesn't like to see arm wrestlers get tense. He speaks into the microphone. He tells the competitors that there will be an hour break so they can go outside to watch the "Teenie Weenie Bikini" contest by the pool. Someone in the audience yells, "No!" Someone else yells, "Lock up!" A third: "Pull! Pull!" Now everyone is chanting, "Pull! Pull! Pull!" Keith smiles, shrugs and calls two competitors onstage, Ray Taglione and Joe Elmizadeh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Lock Up! And the Pulse Pounds | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Last summer Takeshita and Abe began negotiations to pool their votes on the condition that one scrap his candidacy in favor of the other. With the support of a third faction, the coalition would field a total of 231 votes. But talks bogged down. Last week three-way discussions with Miyazawa got nowhere. Meanwhile, Takeshita was well short of the 223 votes required to take the L.D.P. presidency. As party boss, the president automatically becomes Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan A Back-Room Man Steps Forward | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Encourage consumers to save. If Americans increased their savings rate (only 4% of disposable income last year, vs. nearly 17% in Japan), they would spend less money on foreign imports and help cure the trade deficit. Moreover, an expansion of America's paltry savings pool would help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign financing. One proposal for bringing that about: a progressive consumption tax. This kind of levy would work like a national sales tax, but be progressive in the sense that it would exempt necessities (food, housing, medicine, clothing) to avoid putting an undue burden on low-income citizens. Former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Ways To Get Out from Under | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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