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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...required half the cars in the nation's 20 largest cities to be powered by alternative fuels by the year 2000. Budget Director Richard Darman and Economic Adviser Michael Boskin worked for weeks to come up with the scaled-down version that eventually went to the President. Bush never saw the EPA's 50% proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Bush: Mr. Consensus | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...estimated 645,000 (the ad upped it to 650,000) annual instances of a protective use of a gun. Kleck notes that his study may have included incidents in which a homeowner merely heard noisy youths outside his house, then shouted, "Hey, I've got a gun!" and never saw any possible attacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Guns Save Lives? | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...MasterCard's computer started licking its chops when it saw Joey had used one of his checks to borrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: How My Pal Joey Got Even | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...MasterCard's computer then saw the $10,000 payment, so MasterCard couldn't start charging him interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: How My Pal Joey Got Even | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...when Lovetta Farrar of Kansas City looked at the decision, she saw something different--a ticket out of prison...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: "My Fetus Pleads the Fifth" | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

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