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Word: ran (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then Clemens, averaging just over two walksper game this season, ran into trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Blasted, 8-1 | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

Boggs, who sat out the final four games of theseason with a right hamstring injury, ran harddown the baseline and was limping noticeably aftercrossing first base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Blasted, 8-1 | 10/8/1986 | See Source »

...many suburbs. The study concluded, "Crack presently appears to be a secondary rather than primary problem in most areas." Ironically, the DEA report received little coverage: it did not make the CBS or the ABC network newscasts that night, was passed up by the New York Times and ran on page 18 in the Washington Post the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Reporting the Drug Problem | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

While the DEA was focusing on crack, some news organizations were questioning whether the entire drug-abuse story has been receiving too much attention. The New Republic ran a cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Reporting the Drug Problem | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

When the car stopped in a southern suburb, Hirst, who had succeeded in removing the blindfold, forced the door open and escaped. "When I ran away, they did not shoot," he marveled. Hirst, who then grabbed a taxi back to town, says he has not decided whether to stay in Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The One That Got Away | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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