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Word: weren (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dots weren't the only hazard students had to navigate yesterday. As they entered and left Memorial Hall students found themselves confronted by giant, overhanging partitions with signs urging them to join--for fun and profit--various student organizations...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard Hazards: Red Dots, Green Dots... | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...This was a good match to get the exams out of our system," said Colbourne, who later admitted that his exams weren't too hard anyway...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Racquetmen Sweep Through Jumbos | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...weren't the other 58 minutes reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Covering Babbitt | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...crusader was a relatively safe target. The best and earliest lines belonged to Babbitt. "I think everybody is entitled to a comeback try," he cracked. "But in Gary's case, I don't know if the comparison is to Sugar Ray Leonard or Jim and Tammy Bakker. If this weren't so serious, it would be funny. If it weren't so funny, it would be serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Of Gary Past | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

...Mengistu regime has been exaggerated. One of them is Father Thomas Fitzpatrick, director of Caritas International, the Rome-based Catholic emergency-aid organization. "There was not massive corruption or diversion during the 1984 famine," says Fitzpatrick, an American who supervised Catholic aid in Ethiopia at the time. "There weren't distribution foul-ups to the extent that has been reported. It's true that some ships were backed up in the harbors. True, it rained once unexpectedly, and some grain was exposed and began to rot. But no more than 3% of all the aid that went through our hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Helping Really Help? | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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