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Word: reportion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police spokesman said yesterday the police report "gives the impression" that Bok was not in his room when his possessions were taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Takes Bok's Property From Washington Hotel Room | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...hotel security report states that Bok was "totally uncooperative" when police questioned him about the incident. Bok said his breakfast had just arrived when a policeman asked him to go downstairs and answer questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Takes Bok's Property From Washington Hotel Room | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

Although a state planning board recently gave its sanction to the project, the state's office of environmental affairs must still review a draft of an environmental impact report (EIR). And a source in that office says that the office, which will issue its recommendations this week, may ask for the EIR to be rewritten from scratch...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Board Approves Parcel 1B Project; Citizens Fear Traffic, Pollution Rise | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...cause of the injuries, he examined one of the baskets and found the culprit: a sharp, rough edge on the flange that connected the rim to the backboard. There were also other potentially dangerous sharp edges and points on the rim. Kirk's conclusion, in a straight-faced report to the Journal of the American Medical Association: the lacerations had occurred when the players' hands hit the hoop while they were making slam dunk shots. Recommends Kirk: "In the interest of good sports medicine, all high school and college coaches, athletic directors and attending physicians should check these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dunk Syndrome | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Arens says Columbus passed on tales of cannibalism to his Spanish masters to help establish a slave trade. In one report he wrote of the Caribs: "The welfare of said cannibals. . . has raised the thought the more that may be sent over [to Spain] the better." Afterward, on one Caribbean island after another, natives were identified as cannibals, then enslaved. Says Arens: "Thus the operational definition of cannibalism in the 16th century was resistance to foreign invasion followed by being sold into slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Really Eat People? | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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