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Word: tacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gallagher, Harvard's long distance golden girl, who posted wins in the 5000-and 3000-meter races, shared the "most outstanding tack performer" award with Princeton sprinter Sally Anderson...

Author: By William J. Jason, | Title: Men Tracksters Win Meet; Women Take Fourth | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...rate stimulated by unchanging anticipation of these increasing prices. Companies and labor unions decide expenditures, wage policies and investment strategies with a stream of future price increases in mind. The need to alter this conception for the future has played a large role in the administration's strong ideological tack against budget increases and fiscal waste. Stockman personifies a ruthlessness in policy and intent meant to foster the nation's belief in the positive results of the supply-side experiment. The Reagan administration's recent disagreements with private forecasting firms over the pace of the economy's recovery...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: When the Ax Comes Down | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

...quickly ties of this succession of typically helpless victims. But the movie does take a surprising tack away from the obvious horror movie devices--an aggressor gets it. A rapist, in the process of attacking a woman, lies on the sand for a split-second too long and suddenly rolls over in blood, writhing in pain--the monster has struck, and this time where it counts...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Geritol Case | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...other hand, Royko, played by Burt Young (Adrienne's chunky brother in Rocky), is believeable, since he does not seem to take either the killings of the movie too seriously. A Chicago cop, intruding with his grubby humor and lack of tack on the mellow L.A. police force, he thrives by maintaining a detached attitude to all the goings on. After the police dig where a woman disappeared, he scoops up a bloody round object, plops it in a baggie, and yells to the woman's lover, "hey, what color eyes does she have--un, did she have...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Geritol Case | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

Reagan then did some prodding of his own by indicating that he might attempt a different, unspecified tack if the crisis was not resolved by the time he takes office on Jan. 20. Though he said he would probably support a Carter-negotiated settlement, the President-elect would not commit himself absolutely. Said Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages: Wheeling and Dealing | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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