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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to that was that the Housing Office was pessimistic. As it turned out, this speculation, which was one of the most pessimistic things I heard by the start of the summer, was extremely optimistic. Even as I returned in August to look for a place off-campus, I ran into students who thought I was rather crazy to look for a place off-campus given my position on the waiting list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Crunch | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

First The New York Times ran a page one story on the, shall we say, similarities between a Biden peroration in an August debate in Iowa and a moving and brilliantly effective Neil Kinnock speech shown in an advertisement during the British elections. Then it turned out Biden had lifted, without attribution, a lengthy passage from another famous and eloquent speech Robert Kennedy made during the 1968 presidential campaign...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Biden His Time | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

Following are some excerpts from Julie V. Iovine's controversial Wall Street Journal article, entitled. " `Lipsticks' and Lords: Yale's New Look" The piece ran August 4, 1987 in the Journal's Leisure and Arts section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journal Article: Outcry's Source | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

HCHP ultimately performed a Spirometer test on Ramos to determine whether she had pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, which is common among AIDS victims, but test results were incomplete because the Spirometer machine "ran out of paper and the test was not completed," according to the complaint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIDS Victim Sues Harvard Health Plan Doctors | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

...sign of collapse from within. Moreover, its prospects of being punctured from without are slim. Since crazy states tend to be destroyed from the outside, their fate is often a function of their geography. Hitler had the misfortune of being located in Central Europe; his pursuit of Lebensraum ran up against the greatest powers of the day. The Khmer Rouge's bad luck was to be living next door to an equally warlike Viet Nam. Otherwise it would be killing to this day, assuming there were any Cambodians left to kill. Gaddafi had the misfortune of being hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: How To Deal with Countries Gone Mad | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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