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Word: sittings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson prepares to face off withthe more serious ECAC contenders, the skepticswill sit back and watch. If Harvard comes out ofupstate New York undefeated, many skeptics will besilenced. Harvard will still be the team to beatin the ECAC...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Fooling the Skeptics | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...park] is the kind of open space that should be included in a city. It's a nice place for people to sit and eat lunch," Schershow said...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Area Group Reports on Parks | 12/1/1987 | See Source »

...typical C.O.A. meeting, participants sit in a circle and offer reflections on their own experiences, from a paralyzing fear of intimacy to acute conditions like bulimia, a disorder marked by episodes of excessive eating. At the heart of their pain and confusion is a childhood fraught with anxiety. "When we were kids and our parents were drunk, it was our problem," a 21-year-old daughter of an alcoholic told TIME's Scott Brown. "Somehow it seemed that we should be super people and make our family healthy." Reliving painful childhood experiences among sympathetic listeners enables the C.O.A.s to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out in the Open | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...neighborhood of Johannesburg, a white woman who lives on a street whose residents are mostly black, colored or Indian, voices a typical complaint. "If they lived one family to a flat, it wouldn't be so bad," she says. "But there are so many that now I can't sit outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa The Graying of a Nation | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...startling that Wright has developed disdain for Reagan. Most congressional leaders in the opposition party, so immersed in the mechanics of legislation and so convinced of their own virtue, find Presidents, who sit at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, to be woefully ignorant and out of touch. A little contact always seems to prove the point. Three decades ago, when Dwight Eisenhower was ending his two terms, Johnson, the Senate's majority leader, flared up just like Wright after visits to the White House, though Johnson was far more cautious about who heard him. "That man does not deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Speaker's Itch for Power | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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