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Word: theres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Labbe did not visit the war-torn regions of Cambodia, he saw no actual starvation during his tour, though he says that people are eating "very bad-ly." The Cambodians working for the new regime are being paid in rice and corn. Still, Cambodian refugees in Thailand report that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Struggling Back to Life | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

But there is little unity among his rivals, and the electoral campaign is likely to exacerbate their tribal and political differences. Nkomo and Mugabe, for example, have still not even decided whether to stand together in the election -if indeed they ever participate. Since as many as ten black factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: Return of the Union Jack | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Such hangdog pathos is enough to provoke wistful dreams of returning to the vanished day when a person was guided only by folk wisdom: an apple a day would keep the doctor away. But there is no going back. Today the apple must be checked for sprayed-on toxins. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Living Happily Against the Odds | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

What follows is wet, dirty and boring, and goes on for hours. The truck's owner, an escaped city man who can sound irritatingly smug about the rewards of living in the country, is angry now at the cordwood, the mud, poor mired Linda, and himself. He is spinning wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Not enough caviar to hurt, however: even in Vermont, which is expected to burn more than 400,000 cords this winter (up from 300,000 last year), the heating oil saved amounts to only 60 million gal., about a third of the state's annual consumption in recent years. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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