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Word: question (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always need more space," Shklar says. The use of the Gulf site for a library, she says, is "not out to the question...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: 'Trying to Keep Our Head Above Water' | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...scientific perspective and with a scientist's precision. But he was also a humanist, a lover of poetry, and these brief essays demonstrate the remarkable range of his interests, from children's games to the genius of Rabelais to the dissatisfactions of playing chess against a computer to the question of why butterflies are considered beautiful. And his mind is agile. When he discovers that the framework of a crinoline gown in the Kremlin museum contains a tube that used to be filled with honey to catch stray fleas, he reflects on how the flea learned to jump 100 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Acute Agility | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

There is certainly much to question in Saranow's handling of tax cases that the IRS brought against two rivals of Guess. In 1985 Saranow, acting on a tip from Guess, launched a criminal probe of Jeff Hamilton, Inc., a Los Angeles- based company that once made clothes under a license from Guess. A year later Saranow, again relying on information supplied by Guess, got IRS officials in New York City to begin a criminal case against Jordache. At the time, Jordache's founders, the Nakash brothers, were embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Marciano brothers, who founded Guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delinquent Taxmen | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...them. The farther back, the more likely the missiles will survive until you need them. But we have to be careful not to push the Germans. At this point, we have the luxury of being in the research stage and of not having to push anyone on the deployment question at a time when their circuits are overloaded. My view is that we shouldn't force answers to questions before we have to ask them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with JOHN GALVIN: Keep The Powder Dry General: | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...loftiest level in 16 months and just below the 140-yen ceiling that the allies set. The U.S. and its partners are determined to do what they can to slam on the brakes -- but whether their efforts would slow down the runaway dollar remained an open question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Try To Stop Me, If You Can | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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