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Word: win (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...least, if you are an NBC fan. Along with posters, banners and in-store videos flogging the peacock network, the department-store chain and NBC have concocted a contest pegged to the fall season. Unlike the CBS game, however, you do not have to watch NBC shows to win; you just answer a few questions about them to vie for prizes like a new car or a guest appearance on an NBC show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now for the Hard Sell | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...outgoing U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab in a departing blast. "We are fighting an uninspired war of attrition. A war of words. The drug issue is not a priority right now. I don't think our Government, either in Congress or the Administration, has the stomach necessary to win this battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Loose Cannon's Parting Shot | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...hometown of Kobe to apologize for an inaccurate newspaper report that she had accepted a J.S.P. draft for the lower house of parliament. The official was condescending and blunt: "Wouldn't it be really stupid to run in an election you know you have no chance of winning?" Affronted, Doi snapped back, "I've decided right here, at this very moment, that I will run for this election." She went on to win, and has not lost a single contest since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takako Doi: An Unmarried Woman | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...gimmick to rebound from a disastrous election in 1986, the J.S.P. asked Doi to take on the party's leadership. Fearing she had been chosen as a "paper tiger" with no influence over policy, Doi, according to some reports, conducted tough negotiations with back-room power brokers to win the clout she felt she needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takako Doi: An Unmarried Woman | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Would George win through...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Tales of a Wimp President | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

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