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Word: sparking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SECOND play, What Time Is This Place?, never attains the vigor and spark of Am I Blue. Written by the artistic director of the Alley, this one-act is a '60s-meets-the-'80s drama. It tries too hard to say something meaningful about the latest generation gap and ends up being contrived...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Alley Oops | 3/7/1987 | See Source »

Volcker argued that the dollar has already fallen far enough. While its decline promises to help narrow the trade deficit, a continued plunge could send import prices surging and spark increased inflation. That is one threat the Fed chairman cannot afford to underestimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY: Bucking Up The Dollar | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Harvard, which shot a dreadful 39 percent form the floor for the game, received a spark from the play of sophomore forward Tedd Evers, who scored 13 of his career-high 17 points in the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke Be-Devils Cagers, 98-86 | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...rest of the University community enjoys peaceful somnolence in this its 351st year, Alumni Against Apartheid, which sponsored Seidman's candidacy, has mounted another offensive. With continued alumni support, some of this year's six unofficial divestment candidates may continue to spark reforms in Harvard's bureacratic mudpuddle. May they lift a few heads from the sand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Overlook the Overseers | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

Mere mention of Claude Dallas can spark a shoving match in any Great Basin saloon or diner. At the Koffeepot Cafe, several miles from the site of Dallas' trial, Tiny, an Idaho-size chunk of a man, bellows about Dallas while nursing a large RC Cola. His reverence for the poacher scarcely exceeds his antipathy for the law. "Pogue being a sumbitch," Tiny admits, "don't make it right that Dallas shot him in the head after shooting him once." But for Tiny, and others, a blistering rancor justified the first bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: A Killer Becomes a Mythic Hero | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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