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Word: quieting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although there are a large variety of restaurants along the peninsula, most of them have large seafood menus and provide fish, lobster, mussels, clams--and whatever else you might imagine--fresh everyday. The eating places closer into town promise a quiet atmosphere and nicely prepared dishes...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Avoiding the Crowds | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

There is an indoor dance floor with a disc jockey, an outdoor dancing space with a live band, bars all over the place and a soccer-field sized backyard decorated with aging statues. Behind the backyard is a quiet pond which romantic couples often look out upon. Other people throw up into...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Imagine the Perfect Getaway Place | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

Until recently this stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central Square was a self-contained neighborhood, with quiet restaurants and bars, its own movie theater and small, local businesses catering to the area's residents...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: Going for Condos and Smoked Salmon | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

...government order in Kampuchea will be difficult enough. Larger dreams of transforming Indochina from "a battlefield to a marketplace" or reconciling North and South Korea lie well in the future. But the 1.4 billion people of the Soviet Union and China have good cause for some quiet celebration. At the very least, they can mark the beginning of the end of a dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Comrades Once More: Beijing and Moscow | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...flash a thumbs-up and make it happen. That power used to be the exclusive preserve of the studio moguls. Not anymore. While studios still control the financing, today the man with the golden thumb is Michael Ovitz, an agent and martial-arts buff who works in quiet but irresistible ways. Nearly everyone in show business agrees that Ovitz, 42, president of Creative Artists Agency, is probably the most powerful figure in Hollywood. Some think he may be a bit too powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pocketful Of Stars: Michael Ovitz | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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