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Word: sinner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Free-traders have meanwhile been developing a telling case for opposing import restrictions. It is true, they concede, that foreign nations often discriminate against U.S. exports. But the U.S. is a sinner too. From time to time it has negotiated quotas, sometimes disguised as "voluntary" agreements with foreign producers, on imports of steel, autos, sugar and even textiles. In a study for the Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten and William Cline contend that the U.S. restricts imports from Japan about as much as Japan limits purchases from the U.S. Another widely quoted estimate is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Barriers | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...Limits honky tonk, kicks off side two. After "Get Back to the Country," it's the album's strongest song. Next up, the title cut, is a classic Waylon-style "Gonna quit this drugs and drinkin" confessional. It's one of Young's funniest pieces since "Yonder Stands the Sinner...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Neil Young Goes Twang | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jeeves Vs. Zelda Tom and Viv | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...works as disparate as Pinocchio and Jaws). But somehow Warwick Hutton has found a way of giving the tale a fresh approach in Jonah and the Great Fish (Atheneum; $12.95). The text is simplified but not simpleminded, and if the sins have been scaled down, the sinner has not. As Jonah and his shipmates are buffeted by the tempest, the wind seems to blow from the page, and the great fish that consumes him soon turns from a monster into a seaborne aquarium. One half expects to see a sign on its vaulted rib cage warning OCCUPANCY BY MORE THAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Wonders For the Young | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...Globe, the average contribution has been less than $5. And from new until sometime in January. The Globe will be dutifully running out in agate sized type a list of all the people helping pay for toys for poor kids, contributors as varied as "Westwood Lions Club," "A repeating sinner,". "From the workers in the ECG lab at Mass. General Hospital." "To my rabbit, Stompper," and "From the purse I found and never returned...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Christmas on the Globe | 12/14/1984 | See Source »

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