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Word: signs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says the couple has a "high regard for schools that do a good job." She insists that the decision to homeschool their sons was not a sign of contempt for the American education system...

Author: By Nara K. Nahm, | Title: Homeschoolers Are at Home at Harvard | 3/16/1989 | See Source »

...death knell had sounded. I turned to leave in despair when a sign before my eyes proclaimed "March Is Nutrition Month...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Beating the Crispito Blues | 3/14/1989 | See Source »

...colleges have seen their endowments rising. The United Negro College Fund reported a record $44.1 million in contributions for its past fiscal year. Bill Cosby's announcement in November that he would donate $20 million to Spelman College, the Atlanta institution from which his daughter graduated, was another dollar sign of support from black parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Black Middle Class: Between Two Worlds | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...will vote up or down a binding affordable homeownership initiative petition I have written, called 'Proposition 1-2-3.' This will appear on the ballot through the support of 15,000 people (30 percent of the registered Cambridge voters) who have cared enough about the issues it involves to sign in public the petition papers...

Author: By Fred Meyer, | Title: Home, Security and Freedom | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

Scarce rent-controlled apartments are often distributed based not at all on need or merit, but via "Reward for Rent-Controlled Apartment" posters on our streets. One current sign, for example, stuck in front of the Coop bookstore building, offers (on professionally printed, slick, self-stick paper) $1500 cash for information leading to a rentcontrolled apartment. This money is customarily paid to a tenant moving out, for introducing the reward payer to the landlord...

Author: By Fred Meyer, | Title: Home, Security and Freedom | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

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