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Word: skeletons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before its mutilation, the waist-high robotic figure was covered with toys and other objects, the ski-pole skeleton held together by brightly colored telephone wire. Its face was an old cartoon-character lunchbox, its torso a discarded radio, its hands giant ski gloves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junk Sculpture Decorates Garden St. | 9/29/1984 | See Source »

Tramiel went further. He installed Sons Sam, Gary and Leonard in key management posts and sent out pink slips to some 70% of Atari's remaining U.S. work force of 1,100, leaving a skeleton crew of no more than 300 engineers, financial and marketing people and clerks. Atari's manufacturing facilities will be shifted and consolidated. One center in El Paso will be moved to Sunnyvale, and Atari's software production will be relocated to Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Pac-Man | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Want to sell DC-9s for Yugoslav hams, beer and machine tools, or frozen New Zealand lamb for Iranian oil? How about U.S. jet fighters for Greek cement, or a 150 million-year-old Mongolian dinosaur skeleton for West German cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Barter | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Grant's Tomb, as the euphoric scientists subsequently named the 1,500-year-old find, is the first unspoiled Mayan burial chamber to be unearthed in two decades.*The discovery contained 15 clay pots, well-preserved wall paintings and a skeleton of a male believed to be in his 30s. Researchers, who announced the find last week, expect the contents to shed fresh light on a shadowy period of the mysterious Mexican and Central American civilization that flourished in the jungle from about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Buried Treasure in the Jungle | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...Sandra Gabbert was typical of the Green River Killer's victims. Like eleven others, Sandra was a prostitute. She worked an area of the Pacific Highway South called Sea-Tac Strip where prostitutes did a brisk business. Three months after she began her career, Sandra disappeared. Her skeleton was one of those discovered last week. Nine of the killer's 20 suspected victims since the summer of 1982 have been found in or near the Green River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River of Blood: A Murder Spree Shakes Seattle | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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