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Word: tacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Telecommunications Industry Association will contribute 50,000 cell phones pre-programmed to dial 911, along with free cellular air time, to the nation's 20,000 community policing programs to help them combat crime. TIME Washington correspondent J.F.O McAllister that Americans can expect to see Clinton expanding his new tack of governing-by-fiat, since it casts him as the activist President working hard for middle-class folks. Take the speech last month when he asked television networks for three hours of educational programming each week. Didn't cost him a dime to get up before a crowd and propose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costs Nothing, Tastes Great | 7/17/1996 | See Source »

...After number five, we decided to take a different tack," Barrios says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Tenured Despite Complaints of Verbal Abuse | 4/9/1996 | See Source »

...virus] does is tack on some extra information to each file and Windows refuses to operate because the file sizes are off. There's no hardware damage or data loss," Lopez said...

Author: By Marian Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Virus Strikes Harvard System | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...blazes in the original, delay your eye as it tries to get into the picture. More obstacles are built into the space between the carpet and the figures at the end of the room. There is a white pitcher on the table, a sky-blue chair with gleaming brass tack heads, and finally the voluptuous mass of a bass viol lying on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: DUTCH TREAT | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...They got CHILD ABUSE stamped on my file, and that is not true. I neglected my kids, I'll admit that, but I never abused them." Sitting in a cramped second-floor apartment in East San Diego carpeted with dirty laundry and food remnants, the single mother abruptly changes tack. "What if I go to jail? Who'll take care of my kids?" Davis breaks into Roper's panicked monologue. "I gotta think about this and make some calls, Diana. I'll get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASEWORKERS: MAKING THE TOUGH CALLS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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