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Word: thanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eliminate the Carter incompetency by eliminating the Carter incumbency. Thank God there is still a choice -John Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...have been misinformed. Thank you, Jones. That is all, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Harrowing off Heaven | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

Hutton, among others-is a packaged seminar called Power Writing. Sample exercises: write a thank-you letter or a memo with a "dynamic" and "relevant" opening; write a rejection on a business proposal with sympathy and understanding. One corrective exercise asks, "Did you find rewriting the cliches easy?" At $89.95 each, the firm has sold upwards of 10,000 Power Writing kits, each of which contains workbooks, a dictionary, a thesaurus and four audio cassettes. American Telephone and Telegraph has budgeted an estimated $2 million to provide a customized version of the Power Writing course for 20 Bell System offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Righting of Writing | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...young actress) is beaten, raped and murdered--in the film and in reality as well. It is now illegal to make such films in the U.S., yet they are still imported and shown and turn a profit. As Linda Lovelace commented, referring to her period of sexual slavery, "I thank God today that they weren't making snuff movies back then." In this case, as in every other, the huge profits from the pornography go to the people in charge--the pimps...

Author: By Ilana Debare and Kris Manos, S | Title: The Business of Degradation: Women and Pornography | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

...raid. Afterward, the President made sure that Americans learned of the visit by emotionally describing to Democratic congressional leaders how Colonel Charlie Beckwith, commander of the assault force, had apologized for the failure. The teary-eyed President embraced Beckwith and replied: "You have nothing to apologize for. I thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Out of the Rose Garden | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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