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Word: tanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actually controlled, by Eritrean forces. The railroad from the port of Assab carries no traffic; its bridges have been destroyed by guerrillas. Ethiopian army units dare not travel unescorted more than a few miles outside the capital. When they do go farther, they move by convoy with tank protection and air cover. Their supplies arrive only by air-at an airfield that is well within the capital city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ERITREA: A Raging War on the Horn of Africa | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Such far-out cases are cropping up more and more frequently. In Dallas, a busty woman felt that an employer unfairly discriminated by discouraging her from wearing a revealing tank top while tolerating this garb on women employees not so well endowed. In North Carolina, two career Marines charged that the Marine Corps unconstitutionally discriminated when it discharged them for being chronically overweight. Surprisingly, as though a fighting force no longer retained the right to prescribe fitness standards, the Corps backed down and reinstated them. Many such cases clearly fall beyond the frontier of the ridiculous. It is amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Sensible Limits of Non-Discriminiation | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Wallace (2) 2-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (1) 3-The Dragons of Eden, Sagon (3) 4-Roots, Haley (4) 5-It Didn 't Start with Watergate, Lasky (5) 6-Looking Out for #1, Ringer (7) 7-Passages, Sheehy (6) 8-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (8) 9-The Camera Never Blinks, Rather 10-Haywire, Hayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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