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Word: rests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bankers rightly point out that they must abide by relatively strict currency-reporting laws, while their counterparts in other countries play fast and loose. That discrepancy has prompted Washington to try to persuade the rest of the banking world to adopt the record-keeping system used by American institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Though sex interested the nerds and geeks less than the issue of how yoga could help them get more rest out of less sleep, Widerman pressed his agenda onto the floor...

Author: By Johanna B. Berkman, | Title: Life as a Jock Nerd | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...tired cliche to describe the 1980s as the era of selfishness, ostentation and greed. Ever since Nancy Reagan undertook to redecorate the White House and purchase new china while the rest of the country suffered the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, word has been out that Greed...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...example is classic. Feldstein's point was not that he likes unemployment but that it was neccessary to throw a few hundred thousand more economically marginal Americans into the face of poverty in order to provide for the financial security of tenured professors and the rest of the bond-holding class...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...HISTORICAL significance of the 1980s is that the Winners, in the rush to defend their privileged positions, forgot that the rest of society existed. Granted, the Winners do a lot of agonizing about the plight of the ghetto "underclass." And then there...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

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