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Word: snuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack the proper training in the use and maintenance of these machines. The College of Radiology has responded with a drive, launched in 1989, to examine and certify mammography facilities. It advises patients to choose a high-volume accredited facility. Another sign that a mammogram is up to snuff: the ouch factor. To get a good picture, the mammography machine must compress the breast. "If you're not uncomfortable," says UCLA's Fox, "you're probably getting a bad mammogram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breast Cancer: A Puzzling Plague | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...Willinger's Great Football Play Helps Cornell Snuff Harvard. Big Red Football Hero Fends Off Valiant Crimson Effort...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: It's Just a Game | 10/9/1990 | See Source »

WORLD: By cutting the flow of oil and gas to Lithuania, Gorbachev hopes to snuff the republic's declaration of independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: April 30, 1990 | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...Cuba's famed cigars turning into second-rate smokes? The country may be facing enormous economic and political problems, but that question is provoking passionate debate. Last week Francisco Padron, the director of Cuba's state-owned tobacco company, proposed a televised taste test to snuff out speculation that Cuba's cigar factories have been hurrying the curing process and producing mediocre products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Cuban Stogie Crisis | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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