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Word: ten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving to work when Dame Nature begins to shuffle across your innards in her steel-toed brogans. You stop at the nearest full- service gas station, ten miles down the road, grab the key, open the door and . . . Ay-yi, maybe you can wait after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Guide to Discomfort Stations | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...feet tangled with South African-born Zola Budd. Her time qualified her for the final, but did not put her in strong contention. In the deciding race she led the pack for several laps but faded long before the end to finish an embarrassing tenth in a field of ten. Slaney, who has another chance this week in the 1,500 meters, vows she'll be back in 1992. "It's frustrating not to have an Olympic medal, but that's not what motivates me," she says. "It's just liking what I do." That, after all, is the real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic On the Track | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...adapt to a rapidly changing workforce. Both husband and wife hold jobs in 57% of U.S. couples with children, up from 43% in 1978. In 1950 only 12% of mothers with children under six years old worked outside the home; more than 57% do so now. Over the past ten years, in fact, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force has been mothers of children younger than three years old. More than half of these women have jobs today, up from a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Family Ties: Home Is Where The Heart Is | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...council pushed for installation of the condom machines ten months ago but had to wait until May to install them because of complications arising over insurance and house committee approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Condom Machines Are Ready for Refills | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

Although most students who choose to honors actually complete a senior thesis, some do not. Ten percent of all honors history concentrators drop down into the non-honors track over the course of their time at Harvard, Kuhn says...

Author: By Kelly D. Eckel, | Title: Who Needs a Thesis Anyway? | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

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