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Word: staying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just a big deal. And your names are announced at the games." On those Friday nights every autumn, high school football mania sweeps across Texas, consuming everything in its path. But unlike Northern fans, Texans never streak for the restrooms and hot-dog stands at halftime. They stay to see the marching band and, especially, to watch the high-strutting twirlers showing off flash, skill and baby fat in their tight, sequined costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Twirling to Beat the Band | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...feel about dying-It feels like being alone. I would like to stay around a little longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anguishing Letters to Dad | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...federal laws, the FBI can of course step in. The most obvious charge would be kidnapingr keeping a member against his will. But invariably when the FBI has investigated such a charge, agents have been told by the supposedly kidnaped person that he or she was perfectly content to stay in the cult. Says Robert Keuch, a U.S. deputy assistant attorney general who is familiar with sects and their practices: "What may be brainwashing to a parent or other relative may be belief to the alleged victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Following the Leader | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Also boosting effectiveness are the 15 additional KC-135 Stratotankers to be sent to Europe next year, which permit more U.S. warplanes to stay aloft longer. Greater firepower. The two U.S. armored cavalry regiments stationed on the East German border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Can Move Damned Fast | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Demographic and social changes reward cosmetics firms that stay on top of them, and punish those that do not. As birth rates drop and the postwar babies reach their 30s, the population is aging. That presents a difficult problem, alas, for cosmetics makers, who know only too well that any appeal to women who are "mature" or "experienced" (or whatever other euphemism might be dreamed up for older women) would be the kiss of death. One response that Bergerac has made is to retarget Revlon's lowest-priced line, Natural Wonder, once aimed specifically at teenagers, to reach women aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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