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Word: weekended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Connecticut Democrat William Cotter, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax legislation: "This is the issue, inflation. I'm one of those who goes home every weekend, and I find that people are fearful. They tell me that hamburger cost $1.29 last week, and now it's $1.69." Adds Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman: "When people realize that every dollar of a tax cut is another dollar of deficit, and when they relate that to inflation, I think that by and large they would rather have less cuts and therefore less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clamor for a Smaller Tax Cut | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Wanna Hold Your Hand is an abundantly dizzy comedy set on that famous February weekend when "Beatlemania" invaded the U.S. Written and directed by two 26-year-old protégés of Director Steven Spielberg (the film's executive producer), it tells the story of a gaggle of suburban teen-agers who will stop at nothing to see the Beatles in person during their maiden visit to New York. As madcap farce the movie is wildly uneven: it starts slowly, and ultimately tots up as many dead spots as solid laughs. Yet the film succeeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Dreams | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Fireballers Jim Keyte and Larry Brown keyed the victories, leading a Crimson mound effort that held the opposition to just six total hits on the weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batsmen Dominate Twice | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard baseball team kept on rolling over the weekend, increasing its winning streak to eight by gutting out an 11-2 squeaker over Northeastern Saturday, then taking a 22-0 cliffhanger over Brown yesterday in Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batsmen Dominate Twice | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...course you recall the fierce determination for revenge that drove the oarsmen past Penn to cop the Eastern Sprints title by almost a length the next weekend at Princeton...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: Heavyweight Crew Faces Rival Penn | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

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