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Word: vigilantism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strong material, then; and Rezzori follows this family labyrinth back with a fine disdain for sentiment, a transparency of feeling, an acid sense of humor and a vigilant eye for nuances of love and indifference, language, landscape and class behavior. It is not a young man's (or a moralist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Into Chaos | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

All three of the outgoing council members--Saundra Graham, David E. Sullivan and Alfred E. Vellucci--have been key backers of a progressive agenda for the city. Their loss will be keenly felt during the next two years, unless voters replace them with an equally vigilant team of pro-tenant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duehay or Wolf #1 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

At the economic summit in Paris in July, the leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies devoted a third of their final communique to an appeal for "decisive action" to "understand and protect the earth's ecological balance." Just a month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, representing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greening of Geopolitics: A New Item On the Agenda | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

So naturally, the public is far from content. In part the problem lies with the failure of the profession and the government to police medicine adequately, since the stakes could not be higher. If a stockbroker is incompetent, his client may lose his savings; if a doctor is negligent, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Sick and Tired | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

The cries of "un-American" are as genuine and as frequent on either side. Everyone is protecting the country. Zappa accuses Gore of undermining the moral fiber of America with the "sexual neuroses of these vigilant ladies." He argues that she threatens our freedoms with "connubial insider trading" because her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Censure | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

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