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Word: third (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barry, a third-term mayor who began as a civil rights activist, has been beset by charges of drug use, consorting with drug dealers, misuse of public funds and adultery. Barry not only tainted his office with scandals, but apparently he has been ignoring his duties...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Marion Barry, National Shame | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

More than one-third of the students in the state education system are being dunned for up to $100 in emergency fees this semester to recoup $20 million in state-ordered budget cuts, the state education chancellor said this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass. Students Dunned $100 | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...Government, the ticking of the debt bomb is no less disturbing. In the 1980s new democracies laboriously replaced dictatorships in more than half a dozen Latin American countries. In Argentina the third military uprising in 20 months was dispelled; shortly afterward, soldiers won a 20% pay hike. By sweeping municipal elections in Brazil's major cities last November, the left posed a credible political threat to the government of President Jose Sarney. With nearly a dozen Latin American debtor nations scheduled to hold presidential elections in the next two years, some populist candidates lure voters with promises of radical solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Sounding the Alarm: Debt-Threatened Democracies | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

Teachers involved in the program, which aims ultimately to reach half a million students, spend about a month at the astrophysics center learning the fundamentals of the STAR approach. They are taught that the road to enlightenment lies in the third dimension. "To convert from three dimensions to two and back to three again leads to special reasoning ability," says project director Philip Sadler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lessons From On High | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...senior fellow at a rather grandly named think tank, the Institute for Independent Research in the Social Sciences. He specializes in population studies and also edits a prestigious journal on international politics. Glynnis, his wife of 26 years, has compiled two successful cookbooks and is working on a third, an ambitious survey to be called American Appetites; Regional American Cooking from Alaska to Hawaii. The McCulloughs have a circle of close friends very much like themselves: well educated, well- to-do, well regarded by their professional peers and by one another. They all feel terribly fortunate and sometimes worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nice People in Glass Houses | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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