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Word: tracked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Railroads. Don your bluestriped engineer's hat and take a ride on theReading with FAO Schwarz's miniature train sets.Complete with an engine, two cars, four people andan 8-foot circle of track, sets range from...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...winner of tonight's showdown gains the inside track for the 1986-'87 Ivy League title. Either Harvard or Brown has won the Ivies every year since...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Brown Bound | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

Minitel is not all digitized gossip. Farmers use it to track weather reports and commodity prices. Pharmacists order drugs, investors check stock portfolios, and real estate agents post listings. Collectors sell antique furniture, rare coins and secondhand fur coats. Jacques Toubon, leader of Premier Jacques Chirac's Rassemblement pour la Republique party, invited voters last August to pose questions to him via Minitel and drew thousands of responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Punching Up Wine and Foie Gras | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...back on track, GM will have to lighten its load considerably, and the company shows signs of doing just that. Chairman Roger Smith announced two weeks ago that next year GM will begin the largest slimming-down operation in its history. Just for starters, he said, the company will close or cut back eleven outmoded plants in four states. These steps, which will cost at least 29,000 jobs out of 762,500 worldwide, will reduce GM's capacity by more than 750,000 vehicles a year, to just over 7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Motors a Giant Stalls, Then Revs Its Engines | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...Cruise film Top Gun, about U.S. Navy pilots training to be "the best of the best," had all the ingredients for a hit: a brash beefcake hero and a gorgeous, throaty-voiced heroine (Kelly McGillis), a pop-music sound track and MTV-style visual pyrotechnics. But the truly impressive stars of the film are its sleek, roaring fighter jets. Featured in thrilling aerial sequences, they make modern-day dogfights seem like the ultimate video game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Goes Hollywood | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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