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Word: scrubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaperman, the touchiest of all charges is bias, since he labors constantly to scrub his story free of it. He must be doing well at this, for people who think newspapers are unfair to labor, business, consumerists or environmentalists amount to less than 15% in each category. That statistic speaks better for impersonal journalism than its critics give it credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Putting Emotion Back In | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...sales of its subcompact Pinto are down because of publicity over faulty gas tanks on earlier models, which sometimes exploded when hit from the rear. The much publicized ousting of Iacocca as Ford's president and the threatened lawsuits against Chairman Henry Ford II have also hurt. To scrub up its image, Ford has been working extremely hard to ensure safety and reliability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them up at the end of the day. In their haste, doctors often fail to remove all the necessary tissue. Sometimes they perforate the uterus or vagina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Risky Abortions | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...workers wash their hands carefully with a surgical scrub, they should not pass along the salmonella. Wacker said...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: UHS Finds Another Salmonella Case; Officials Will Keep Ban on Interhouse | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...summer camp calls itself an "experimental lab." The director insists that even swimming is "political." The children put on plays about heroic workers. Mao's China? A Soviet youth Komsomol? No, Santa Barbara, Calif. Situated in a rundown redwood ranch house nestled among the scrub oaks and laurels in the hills above the city, a unique camp run by those indefatigable activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda opened this summer for 150 youngsters from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Camp Politics | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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