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Word: stinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan flat and makes friends with a nice guy named Mike (Matthew Modine). He's an FBI agent on a Mob detail, but what does this vulnerable widow know? As the camera tiptoes closer, Angela pours out her valentine-on-velvet heart. Tony this, Frank that, life sure does stink. And at the precise intersection of streetwise agony and Method acting -- the very moment at which an actress is expected to secure her Oscar nomination -- Michelle Pfeiffer crosses her eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mafia Princess, Dream Queen MARRIED TO THE MOB | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink: "It's completely unfair for one county to use the river and have a ((low)) unemployment rate, and 50 miles downstream here we are with one of the highest unemployment rates in the state." In North Carolina the people of Canton have traditionally defended Champion Corp., pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Stink on the Pigeon | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...dioxin controversy may tempt Cocke County to take a second look at the compromise plan to improve the Pigeon's color. For the moment the Tennesseans are awaiting further EPA tests, due this summer, that might provide some answer to an urgent question: Does the Pigeon not only stink but actually kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Stink on the Pigeon | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...nuclear deterrence, ideology yields to four decades of reality in U. S.- Soviet relations. -- The lonely life of a twelve- year- old refusenik. -- Noriega thumbs his nose at the U. S. again while American officials wrangle over who is to blame for a backfiring bungle. -- The cross- border big stink about the polluted Pigeon River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Boston Globe devoted three paragraphs to the game. Press row looked like a stink bomb had fallen...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Pot-Luck For B.C. | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

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