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Word: proceeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally considered and approved its entire $77,000 budget, fewer that half of the members remained to approve it. Had a quorum been called for then, weeks of intensive work by an entire committee would have been rendered useless and 24 student organizations would not have been able to proceed with worthy projects funded with the money of undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Attendance | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Convinced that the wily scientist had made a fool of him, Urban signaled the Inquisition to proceed against Galileo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rehabilitating Galileo's Image | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...Angel releases a cascade of personal traumas involving her father, her dead boyfriend and a surprise-package daughter. The rink that was to be razed is literally raised: the set disappears into the flies to reveal a beckoning Atlantic sun, toward which three generations of womankind can now proceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Coney Island of the Mind | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Having only recently arrived in this fair city, I realize that I am in no position to make patronizing observations. Yet, as no one in this town seems to possess even a modicum of common sense when it comes to a certain subject, I will proceed...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Spare Us The Sox | 2/10/1984 | See Source »

...extent that one wishes to predict human affairs, it seems to me, one must proceed from what are known to man. It may, perhaps, be possible to automate individuals but it is difficult to see how this can be done to mankind. Mankind ceaselessly regenerates itself as children come into the world, fresh, ignorant of what has preceded them and what is expected of them, keen to observe, and averse to acting as they are told. To create a uniform world, one would have to devise a way of making acquired characteristics inheritable: something that the charlatan biologist. Trofin Lysenko...

Author: By Richard E. Pipes, | Title: Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Four | 1/11/1984 | See Source »

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