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Word: strength (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoes and exercise wear early next year. But Jones' highest interest lies in medicine, to which he has donated some $11 million for research. Next month doctors and clinics will begin receiving a new computerized Nautilus machine (price: $30,000) that is designed to aid physical therapy by measuring strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muscle Man: Nautilus is pumping profits | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...which added to an international trade deficit that hit a record $123 billion in 1984. Though Americans spent freely early in the year, they were favoring many foreign goods over domestic products. As a result, production in U.S. factories stagnated. The main reason for the import binge was the strength of the dollar, which until the last few months seemed to be rising inexorably. Between 1980 and last February, the value of the dollar climbed by more than 60% against an average of major currencies. That increase devastated many American manufacturers by making their exports more expensive abroad and imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waking Up From a Slump | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

CATHOLICISM. Catholicism gives you a strength, an inner strength, whether you end up believing it later or not. It's the backbone. I think maybe the essence of Catholicism I haven't rejected, but the theory of it, I have, if that makes any sense. I don't go to church but I believe in God. I don't say my rosary but I think about things like that. The thing that has remained with me most, I guess, is the idea that you do unto others as they do unto you. It's not right to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now: Madonna on Madonna | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Another project with potential civilian application is research into particle beams -- streams of atoms or subatomic particles with great penetrating power that could theoretically kill warheads. Says Duston: "If we can improve the focusing and control the beam strength, we could use beams for nontraumatic surgery in areas (of the body) currently inaccessible to the knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wagons Hitched to Star Wars: NATO allies consider participating | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...course, we don't expect students only to come for academic reasons--we're looking for other ways for them to find niches in the community so that it's an easier transition," she added. "But it they don't have academic strength and academic interests, it becomes even more difficult and can be very frustrating...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: The Undergraduate Under class? | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

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