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Word: raine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nickerson Field artificial surface soon turned into an enormous slip-and-slide as the rain continued pouring down on the field. But the Crimson contained the Terriers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen's Win Streak Halted By Boston U., 3-2 | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

...storage room in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where poaching has been rampant, bears witness to this carnage. Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...heat like a greenhouse, could begin to smother the planet, raising temperatures, turning farmland to desert, swelling oceans anywhere from four feet to 20 feet. Goodbye Venice, goodbye Bangladesh. Goodbye to millions of species of animals, insects and plants that haven't already succumbed to acid rain, ultraviolet radiation leaking through the damaged ozone layer, spreading toxic wastes or bulldozers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Fear in A Handful of Numbers | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...same time, Sony said it agreed to pay $200 million to buy Guber-Peters Productions. One of the hottest producer teams in Hollywood, Peter Guber, 47, a former Columbia production executive, and Jon Peters, 42, who got his start as a hairdresser to the stars, produced Rain Man for United Artists and Batman for Warner Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Foreign Owners From Walkman To Showman | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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