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Word: representive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year the independent zoo has become even more diverse. On the right, freshman William H. Walsh is the first councilor to openly represent the landlords' lobby. And on the left, Vellucci supports both rent control and liberal-backed projects like the Council's formal greeting last year to Nicaraguan...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: City Council Hopefuls Hit High Gear For Fall Campaigns | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

Once they are established, the owners of the outlets represent a regular source of income to the parent company, since they generally pay it a percentage of gross revenues and often share advertising and promotion costs as well. A Super 8 franchisee, for example, pays the firm a royalty of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franchising Fever | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

The prospect of the country's second largest conglomerate's shutting down indefinitely stirred Seoul into direct action. Hyundai produces the Excel, a subcompact popular in the U.S. and one of the most potent symbols of South Korea's economic coming of age. Though Chung denies that he caved in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Sputtering Back to Life | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Over the next few decades, Columbia became the school it is today, complete with a large uptown campus. But with an admissions process that discrimated against immigrant Jews and other lower-class New Yorkers, Columbia's student body did not represent the city's changing population. Under reactionary University president...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: The Burden of New York's Intellectuals | 8/21/1987 | See Source »

The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

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