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Word: scopes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before the arms cache was found, officials were worried about the scope of mounting right-wing violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neo-Nazi Terror | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...sight of the parts. Also, for sex--conventional sex, that is--you require a partner, which makes it a group activity. And a stylist avoids anything that requires membership of a group, even if it's a group of only two. Nor does the sexual act itself allow much scope for the expression of individuality, because in whatever version it's performed it is still predetermined by anatomy; it always comes down to the question of what goes where...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Get Punched | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...even workaholic Fenwick wasn't quite prepared for a Congressman's workload. "I had no idea, no inkling, as to the scope and complexity of the job," she says now. "I had no idea that the mail would be so heavy, that there was this special responsibility of righting wrongs and easing the sufferings of individuals. There is no question that this is the busiest thing I've ever done. When I get home at night, I just have time to eat my spaghetti...

Author: By Sandra E. Cavasos, | Title: Millicent Fenwick: Not So Modern Any More | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...Most of all, I want to maintain the scope and difference of the two types of music I write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just Another Pretty Face | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...infusions of funds are good or bad for the businesses involved and for the U.S. as a whole. As soon as the Kuwaiti proposal was announced, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs, which has been holding hearings on the scope of OPEC investment in the U.S., asked the Treasury to halt the takeover pending an investigation of whether the merger is really in the national interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forming Kuwait Oil Inc. | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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