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Word: watchfulnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other expenses." Officials can break such categories down to their individual elements, but they can't carefully predict how these grab-bags will change each year--their miscellaneity precludes any overall guesses. More often than not, officials simply plug in figures based on instinct and past experience and watch with anxious eyes during the next year to see how accurate they were...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Booking In Advance | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...medium to the needs and knowledge of the better informed" and should go after "the great unwashed." Barber is disturbed by those statistics showing that more people get their news from television than from newspapers and magazines but that about half of all viewers say they almost never watch the evening network news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Telling the News vs. Zapping the Cornea | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Students will watch someone pull a U-Haul up to the back of a house and start loading furniture, and they won't think anything of it," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Crime Jumps 36 Per Cent For First Six Months of 1979 | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

...more than a decade Schlesinger was at the center of the nation's drama, court philosopher and iconoclast, a man with big-fisted ideas of leadership oddly matched with a Swiss-watch mind. He is out of phase, decompressing (sort of) as the political pace quickens. He was fired by one President, sensed the time to depart another. A rare repository of current history, Schlesinger is taking long looks at the world on these autumn days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Wrens and Hawks | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...wins the court case, it may find that a disgruntled star is worse than no star at all. Carson has taken to using his show to ridicule the network. "NBC is kind of desperate,: he told his audience last week. "I understand that for every NBC show you watch, you'll get a $400 rebate."It was one of his funniest lines, but it doubtless caused little laughter in the Silverman household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Family Feud | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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