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Word: scouted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, earlier this month Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis made a trip to Hollywood and gave a party at a posh Beverly Hills bistro to entice film makers to come to the Bay State. In most places the commissions will get all the necessary permits, persuade hotels to offer discounts, scout out locations and even provide someone to take the director's spouse shopping. The Illinois office has a geography expert on staff who can pinpoint the location a script requires and requisition a state helicopter to show it to the director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Attack of the Alien States | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Scout's honor. Me and Sissela --we talk about a lot, and we don't like it. You make sure to send us 10 more of your chi professors. And then in two years or so, once we see declining admissions in New Haven, and a few more years of losing sports teams-to go along with this strike-we'll go ahead with it. Won't the Times be bullshit. "A, Bartlett Giammatta To Become "Harvard Faculty Dean, Bok Announces...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitx, | Title: The president's secret weapon | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

Soon after Jeffrey Peters heard two years ago that some hunters had trapped a rare Merlin falcon, he went to Utah to pick it up. Peters, a Columbia, Mo., high school biology teacher and Cub Scout leader, is an internationally respected researcher whose specialty is birds of prey. But he did not obtain a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to transport the rare bird over state lines. As a result, he was snared in an undercover sting operation aimed at poachers who illegally supply falconers in the Middle East, where the ancient sport of hunting with trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The Birdman of Leavenworth | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...soft-spoken Texan, Merrifield is a graduate of UCLA and the 19th Nobelist to be associated with Rockefeller. He is the father of six children and for a while was the leader of a Boy Scout troop. When not at the lab, he spends his time happily tinkering around his house in Cresskill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: CHEMISTRY: MODEL T | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Under the heading "Armor" was this classic paragraph: "Scout vehicles dart in, spot the enemy. Report, Call in the heavyweights. Tanks, Big Tanks. Up to 57 tons of steel and 750 horsepower come thundering in on each set of treads, Stop. Fire, Maneuver, Stand your ground, Slug it out, Mighty machines. But battles...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Not All It Can Be | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

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