Search Details

Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...1970s Mulcahy had managed to pull himself together. Then he ran into Edwin Wilson; Mulcahy signed on with Wilson's Washington-based arms-export firm. For a time, Mulcahy thought the company was a sub rosa CIA enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Stayed in the Cold | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...year-old who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side in middle-class complacency. He takes the palmist literally. Informing his wife that she is no longer spiritually or sexually attractive to him, he abruptly leaves home. Thus begins an odyssey into the sordid inferno of an urban sub-world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: I Hate New York | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...result was an impressive ninth-place finish, and a 2:17:59, ranking Schlesinger in the elite group of sub 2:20 marathoners...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: The Speediest Paper Chaser | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...objections to its proposals--objections that emasculate the program's effectiveness. When suggesting a lowered minimum wage for workers under 20 years old, for example, Newsweek overlooks existing exceptions to the minimum wage law that permit many restaurants and fast found chains, typically major employers of youth, to pay "sub-minimum" wages for high school students. Instead of the prevailing $3.35 an hour, for many teenagers minimum wages brings $2.86 an hour. Any substantial reduction in the guaranteed wage would lead many teenagers to decide that at such paltry pay scales, work just is not worth the effort...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: Newsweek Economics | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...terribly disappointed when the band was not invited to West point but I was insulted when the seem agreed to go without the band, The Harvard Band, the unsung heroes of the University community, has supported the football seam for 63 years, through winning and losing seasons, rains, snow, sub-freezing temperature, and enormous financial burdens, It would have been a well-deserve, gesture had the Atheistic Department refused to send the football team to Army without the band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back the Band | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

Previous | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | Next