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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the issue is not merely whether the new organizations, unlike the final clubs, will have any socially redeeming value. If public service were really the primary aim of these students, they could find plenty of other organizations at Harvard through which to channel their altruistic impulses. The Phillips Brooks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Move to Exclusivity | 12/6/1989 | See Source »

Gimmicks? Of course. About $4.6 billion in deficit reduction comes from allowing the across-the-board cuts triggered by Congress's failure to adopt a ) budget in October to remain in effect through the first week of February. By declaring the Postal Service's deficit "off budget," the number crunchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quack! Quack! Quack! | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Searching through the debris for blessings in disguise, hotel owners note that the disaster could have happened in high season rather than before it. In addition, the tragedy may help inspire local governments to repair the infrastructure properly, and then some. "Hugo has done for St. Thomas what nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Rebuilding Paradise | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Rifkin's performance, which he delivers on average 90 times a year, is a mixture of Jimmy Swaggart, Phil Donahue and Werner Erhard. Twenty years of teaching, preaching and raising consciences -- some would call it rabble- rousing -- have refined this show to the point that it has a slick, thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Hated Man In Science: JEREMY RIFKIN | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

When the police fleet of ten helicopters suddenly appeared overhead at 6:30 a.m., one sentry ran to alert Escobar and others, while bodyguards opened fire with semiautomatic rifles. Escobar slipped away by running through a patch of wild cane, scuttling across a creek with planks laid over it and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Wanted, but Not Found | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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