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Word: steams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister [Indira] Gandhi has failed to solve or even to offer effective solutions to India's major domestic problems." The Indian leader appears to have "run out of political steam," and displays "elements of paranoia and cynicism" in "seeking to blame internal problems on external interference." Her ten-month-old government has been categorized by "erratic" performance, "pedestrian and superficial" style, and "dismaying indecisiveness and ineffectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Troubled Times for Indira | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...progress." They'll have to follow an impulse that has always existed within the American Left--direct community efforts to create non-governmental institutions. There will be a spate of new schools and neighborhood patrols, and the libertarian movement, on the other side, will continue to pick up steam, as people realize that when government won't solve problems for everybody at once, small-scale community solutions are the only possibility...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...steam vegetables, defrost meat, and wash dishes all at the same time in the dishwasher. You're already using the heat and the water, and you might as well take advantage of it." --JED CORMAN, U OF GEORGIA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penny-Pinchers | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

...biggest steel pipe plant in the country--"U.S. Steel. The Real Threat is From Foreign Steel" say the signs at the Grove St. entrance--dominates the southern half of town, stretching across the shores of Lake Erie in a spot close to where an old man invented the steam shovel...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Pride Grows With Progress | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...have we left some terrors out, ones that we tremble to mention, much less to convene? Not that our trembling would make the slightest bit of difference. The terrors of the times have a tendency to arrive on their own steam. And see: here come three more. We know them well. For months they have been hounding us - grinning, waving wildly, like demons, grabbing our hands and shaking them, while we shied away in fright, figuring that with the ghost of a chance, we could avoid a confrontation perhaps for ever. Now our hands shake on their own. For this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Scariest Time of the Year | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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