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Word: wanteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to get into the flow of the game," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "Sometimes, when you pressure, you make mediocre teams better because you give them easy buckets. We knew UNH would have a tough time scoring on us and we didn't want to help them out. We wanted to pick our spots on pressure and concentrate on playing well in the halfcourt...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Stage a Wildcat Strike; James Keys Romp Over UNH | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

...package] is economically counterproductive," he said. "We don't want to solve a long-term problem with a short-term solution...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Keverian Presses Leadership for Tax Hike | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...want you anymore!" a flag-waving crowd of 200,000 roared in a thunderous chant that echoed off the 19th-century buildings surrounding downtown Wenceslas Square. It was the 11th-straight day of massive protests in Czechoslovakia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Millions of Czechs Strike for Reforms | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long as you had no right to the asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors, not financiers who want to turn a Manet into a tax loss.) Bond had the Manet from Chemical on such an operating lease and got tax write- offs on it that may have run as high as $3.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...realistic." Updike is echoed by fellow novelist John Barth, whom Wolfe calls "the peerless leader" of the retreat from realism for his "neo- fabulist" style. Barth says Wolfe's manifesto "is much too narrow a view. I see the feast of literature as truly a smorgasbord. I wouldn't want a world in which there were only Balzac and Zola and not Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The idea that because we live in a large and varied country we therefore ought to write the sweeping, panoramic novel is like arguing that our poets all ought to be like Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Wolfe Among the Pigeons | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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