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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heir to his father's seat in this district. LoPresti has too easily succumbed to the comforts of friendship with the leadership. He has used his more than five terms to move up the senate ladder to Judiciary Chair--the third ranking Democratic post--while gradually losing touch with his constituency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Govoni | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...sells a one-piece touch-tone phone with a 12-month warranty for $15.99. HSA's Science Center desk will be open 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow, and will also sell the phones from its Thayer Hall basement office next week from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phones | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...local calling, one must deal with New England Telephone. They offer metropolitan service, which takes in 44 exchanges in the Boston area at $16.75 a month for a touch-tone dial tone and $16.15 a month for a rotary-set dial tone. For contiguous service--access to Cambridge and all the cities that border on Cambridge--studdents pay $11.20 for touch-tone at d $10.60 for rotary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phones | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...Michigan, Surrogate Mother Judy Stiver agreed to be artificially inseminated by Alexander Malahoff for $10,000. When the baby was born last year, it turned out to be microcephalic and mentally retarded. Malahoff insisted on blood tests that might show he was not the father. As a macabre touch, these test results were announced on Phil Donahue's TV show. They disclosed that Malahoff was indeed not the father; Stiver had had sexual intercourse with her husband at about the same time as the insemination. Now the baby is in the custody of the Stivers, and both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Legal, Moral, Social Nightmare | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...head in the worldly way of Edward G. Robinson. She rents a preposterous weekend apartment in Lille, where she and Gueret calculate their future in the Congo or Senegal, "two unlikely, hardworking lovers...planning for their years of triumph and luxury." But Mme. Biron has also got in touch with an old gangster crony in Marseille to help her fence the jewels, and after that, reality takes a brutal measure of the couple's dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pinched Minds | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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