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Word: warred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning the war of words and actions against any oil company that doesn't understand its responsibility to protect the environment," said Massachusetts state Sen. Carol Amick (D-Bedford) at a boycott rally in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationwide Boycott Day Targets Exxon | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...York World's Fair. One could just as plausibly trace TV's origin back to 1927, when the nation's first experimental TV stations went on the air. Or ahead to the start of regularly scheduled national TV broadcasts, which did not come until after the end of World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Show-and-Sell Machine | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...what changes it wrought there. In the view of curator Larry Bird, who wrote the show's text, television was not just a masterpiece of marketing, it was a key shaper of the postwar consumer age. TV helped induce Americans, still reeling from the Depression and a world war, to start buying again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Show-and-Sell Machine | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Brutal Law of The Land | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Although he did not name names, Rafsanjani said some of those detained were Iranian navy personnel who aided the U.S. when it was patrolling the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war. He cited an incident in September 1987, when U.S. forces attacked and boarded the Iran Ajr as the ship was laying mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Cry Spy! Cry Wolf? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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