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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When she did, a few weeks later, she brought an unusual-looking model: an asymmetrical black granite disk that would be 11 1/2 ft. in diameter at the top but only 20 in. across its base, an object that from a distance would appear to be floating in air. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First She Looks Inward: MAYA LIN | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

The 76-page issue has a single advertiser, Eastman Kodak Co. To accompany the publication, TIME and Kodak have mounted a traveling exhibit of the photographs that premiered Oct. 20 in Washington, where President Bush attended the opening hosted by U.S. Publisher Louis A. Weil III. The show moves on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 6 1989 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Poretz and fellow marketing executive Barry Sinrod have published The First Really Important Survey of American Habits (Price Stern Sloan, $4.95), a really important book for people who want to know what percentage of Americans rolls the toilet paper over the spool (68%) or what portion actually eats the fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Habit Forming | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Experts on risk perception generally agree that people tend to be less concerned about dangers they incur voluntarily, like cigarette smoking and fast driving. They are more resentful of risks they feel have been imposed upon them, like the threat of mishaps at a nearby nuclear plant. They are more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is California Worth the Risk? | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Roger Morris' Richard Milhous Nixon, to be published later this month, tracks the future President from distant ancestry through the 1952 election. A Harvard-trained political scientist who worked briefly in Nixon's White House, Morris has written critical books on two former colleagues, Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger. Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martyr Or Machiavelli? | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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