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Word: sayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Tex.), chairman of the committee, did say a gradual reduction in deposit insurance may be considered as part of solving the S&L crisis. But he also said such a proposal "is a very serious matter, not a matter to be thrown out as a trial balloon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advisers Propose Bank Insurance Cuts | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...past, players have wanted to take some time off after the season, but this year, we all wanted to start playing right away," Reilly said. "We do expect to win next year. We don't want to look back and say we should have done something differently...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Season of Hex, Sighs and Videotape | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

Everyone else always has the same idea. "Hello?" I say. "Hello?" my roommate Adam says. "Hello?" my other three roommates say simultaneously...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...person who's calling usually doesn't realize that five people have answered the phone. He or she thinks there's just some funny echo in the phone line. So they say, for instance, "Can I speak to Jim?" and Jim says "This is he" and the rest of us slink away...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

...pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic than to explain what's really going...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: The Politics of Phony Solutions | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

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