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Word: safe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk is the sex of the '80s. In a time when you can hardly initiate a handshake without a note from your doctor, conversation is not just a white- collar mating dance; it is the most intimate form of safe sex. Over the telephone or a restaurant table, a man and a woman expose their emotions, exchange seminal fears and desires, make each other laugh and sob -- all without touching any organ but the heart. Talk is the consummation devoutly to be wished; no wonder they call it intercourse. It is confession without penance, therapy on the cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: When Humor Meets Heartbreak | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...less. But since the lab equipment was not accurate enough to measure below that level, this was "equivalent to a finding of no Alar," says Dan Gunter, executive director of Florida's department of citrus. Says he: "Alar is not used on grapefruit." The Korean government declared U.S. grapefruit safe, but American growers fear the sour taste may linger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOYCOTTS: Grapefruit's Sour Rap | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

...suspicion is that the new James Bond will prove a little puritanical for the modern movie audience. In the last movie, the cause celebre was safe sex, and Bond made the unheard of move of ordering separate hotel rooms for himself and his lady friend...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: The New 007: Bringing Bond Back to Basics | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

...chill wind does blow if abortion restrictions are established which limit the opportunity for safe abortions only to the more affluent in our country. The breeze will become even more frigid if a woman's right to choose an abortion is stripped completely...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Sending it Back to the People | 7/11/1989 | See Source »

...NATO intelligence has confirmed that nine reactors and 50 nuclear weapons of various sizes are resting on ocean floors. Said one Danish official: "Nuclear things don't just go off, but the idea of these weapons and reactors rusting away on the seabed does not seem to be a safe thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas Danger! | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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