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Word: subjectity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer internship at TIME's New York City editorial offices. Before she knew it, Just was on the telephone with Government and business sources, gathering reactions to the selection of Alan Greenspan, who, as the newly chosen chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was the magazine's cover subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Aug. 10, 1987 | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...this slip during the uproar over the life-imprisonment sentence imposed on an American, Jonathan Jay Pollard, who was caught spying for Israel. In a 1983 incident, members of the Intelligence Committees commented publicly on U.S. and CIA support for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials had talked about the subject so often that the Intelligence Committees decided that it was no longer a secret matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Sharers | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...have a party. The other two boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family of elves . . . If one leaves, none of the rest of us grow up." Wise child. The children's fatal interdependence provides the subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving the principals a chance to confess and dream. The voices are wholly convincing, and Boswell's apercus provide psychological criticism, as when Edward unconsciously utters his own epitaph: "No one wants to hear about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...their subject, Dennis Quaid...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

...cleaning operation called ZZZZ Best (pronounced zeee best) and within six years built it into a $200 million empire. He was a millionaire at 18, and by the time he turned 21 last March, he was the darling of Wall Street, the toast of his hometown, Los Angeles, the subject of flattering magazine profiles and a guest on TV's Oprah Winfrey Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zzzz Best May Be ZZZZ | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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