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Word: racks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrested Jose Giraldo, the alleged primary East Coast contact for a $600 million international drug ring. They also nabbed Michael Phillippo, the manager of a posh Westchester, N.Y., country club, as another alleged ring operative. Police found more than $3.1 million in $20 bills stashed behind Phillippo's wine rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dutiful Daughter | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...earn negative points for such infractions as repeatedly spending in excess of an average 109 seconds handling a call, and taking any more than twelve minutes in bathroom trips beyond the hour a day they are allotted for lunch and coffee breaks. Employees can lose their jobs if they rack up more than 37 points in a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boss That Never Blinks | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor-mouthing rock star, signs autographs, but Molly is too shy to approach him. Instead, she gets down to business, striking surgically at every rack in the store: rock, pop, jazz, country, blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambitions Waking the Dead | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...oscillators, filters, tapes, and other means to create and manipulate sounds. Digital electronics, in contrast, use computers to create, reproduce, and modify sounds. Harvard's array of digital equipment in Paine Hall includes a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a Mirage synthesizer, and an Apple Macintosh computer, as well as a rack of digital effects, mixers, and tape decks. Through an electronic interface called MIDI, the computer can be used to sequence the various synthesizers and to modify sonic waveforms. One interesting feature of the Mirage is its ability to take digital samples of sounds in the "real world" and alter their...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Music Makers Compose Electronic Vibes | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

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