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Word: supers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definite learning experience for me," Faught said, "I made a lot of dumb mistakes in our first game, but I'm progressing in terms of analyzing strategy in different situations. It's a super feeling to have guys go out and execute plays the way I wrote them down," the varsity lacrosse stalwart added...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: 'I Love to Bang Heads!' | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

...quiet campaign. Back home in Manhattan, he has been the same cheery liberal he has always been, fervently flailing away at the establishment. Then before he ventures out into the wilds of forgotten Long Island, Koch steps into a phone booth to emerge a new man, a super-Cuomo. Outflanking the opposition, he has come out in favor of the death penalty, thus cutting into the rich vein of blue-collar Catholic votes--a vein Cuomo, by right of birth, should be tapping. With the Jewish vote comfortably in his pocket (thanks to such stunts as his celebrated letter...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Battle of the Clones | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

...Barre," announced in September of last year, urged business to limit wage hikes to 6.5% a year, v. the 17% annual rate that was handsomely contributing to France's double-digit inflation. To reduce the country's costly oil imports, Barre has jacked up the price of "super" gasoline nearly 21%, to $1.85 per gal. He also imposed a three-month price freeze and lowered value-added (sales) taxes on a wide range of consumer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Professor's Gamble | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...present at least, the party is over. Harvard's suddenly super soccer team took on a Princeton squad that was, in a word, superior, and ended up on the wrong end of a 4-1 decision on the Business School field Saturday morning...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Takes a Licking From Tigers As Princeton Booters Roar to 4-1 Win | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...with radar to direct the killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main target would be the top U.S. spy satellite: "Big Bird," a 10-ton reconnaissance craft that is vulnerable to attack in low orbit (120 miles in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Targeting a Hunter-Killer | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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