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Word: seriousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What if all of the questions had benefited from similar input? One question, in particular, grated: "Have I ever gone to my House Master about a serious personal difficulty?" Come on, I've only shaken his hand once. On a more technical level, does that mean my House master should get a "5" for unhelpfulness, or a "non-applicable" since I've never approached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORANDUM | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...negotiating with the P.L.O. until the group acknowledges Israel's right to exist. Said Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned his post as Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations last week in order to speak out against the encounter as well as run for the Knesset: "The meeting marks a serious erosion in the U.S. commitment not to negotiate with the P.L.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Search for Partners | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...here with trendy Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and the unspeakable Delia (Catherine O'Hara). So the Maitlands have been trying to scare the Deetzes away. Sorry, kids. Go ahead and haunt these New Age parvenus; they'll just invite their friends to enjoy the kicky spectacle. The Maitlands need some serious help, perhaps from the lecherous demon (Michael Keaton) who pesters them with the slogan "Unhappy with Eternity? Call Betelgeuse." Beetlejuice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funeral March to a Calypso Beat BEETLEJUICE | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...political prisoners last week; the remaining 1,432 political prisoners and 1,822 former National Guardsmen are to be freed in stages. Moreover, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called on Reagan to honor a pledge made in November to resume talks with Managua once the Sandinistas and contras began "serious negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Taking a Baby Step Toward Peace | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...authors commit a number of serious statistical sins, and their conclusions are based on demographic fallacies. All "non-monogamous" subjects had at least six different sexual partners each year for five years--a figure which in itself makes the sample unrepresentative...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Adding Fuel to the Fire | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

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