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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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U.S. airline fares are behaving like a jetliner climbing out of a tailspin. After tumbling some 12% since 1981, the cost of flying has risen by about 10% in the past three years and by around 6% so far this year, even though passenger traffic has been flat. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Flying the Costly Skies | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Whereas Platoon had news value, Born on the Fourth of July tells a familiar story; it wants to teach us what we already know. The movie's uniqueness is in its tone. Stone plays director as if he were at a cathedral organ with all the stops out. Each scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on the third of July, 1962, the third child of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters: Lee Anne, 30; Cass, 26; and Marian, 28. Dad had to follow the work, and the family followed Dad; young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Cruise was willing to do anything for the picture; he tabled his usual multimillion-dollar salary, and will earn no money until the box office sends some back. He spent hours with Kovic, peppering the vet with questions, soaking up the man's life. In matching wheelchairs, the two men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

The two-week vacancy at the top was a painful symbol of the network's mounting woes. Dethroned from its No. 1 spot in the Nielsen ratings by NBC during the 1985-86 season, CBS has lately sunk to a feeble third place. Its ratings for the November "sweeps" were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Days Of Distress at CBS | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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