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Word: wiring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started out the three of us, me and Doc and Honey." The trio is first seen performing some honky-tonk behind a wire fence as the roadies loss a beer bottle or two at them. Jenkins, we learn, has survived a lot more than this along the way, and this opening credit sequence qualifies as a classic bit of compacting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down-Home Sleaze | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...than the German soldier," and prostitution was said to come hand in hand with V.D., the soldiers could not be stopped by mere moralizing. Documents from the U.S. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board suggest that at least 15,000 prostitutes were arrested and quarantined in guarded camps surrounded by barbed wire, all in the name of making men "fit to fight...

Author: By Anne EMANUELLE Birn, | Title: What's Love Got To Do With It? | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...spending huge sums to prove the skeptics wrong Control Data Corporation reputedly invested almost a billion dollars in the computerized college curriculum, PLATO. With assistance from major companies, Brown, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, and other institutions are each spending tens of millions of dollars in equipment and programming to "wire" their campuses. Against the backdrop of these developments. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science has launched a comprehensive review of how technology might be best put to use for research, administrative, and not, least educational purposes. It is high time that we studied these questions, for the computer revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education in the Computer Age | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...stage, on the other hand, is both colorful and suitably. The runaways sing, declaim complain, fight, and run around in the freedom of a worn-down playground, replete with traffic signs and spray-painted graffiti on its wails. The band, visible through a wire fence off to the side, provides a steady but often disengaging sountrack for the runaways, exploits. The show peaks in Act II when the Inner City Breakers, a young street-styled trio, stage a friendly invasion onto the playground and perform some impressive rounds of break dancing. Although visibility could be better, the dancers bring...

Author: By A.m. Mcganner, | Title: Running for Realism | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...country. Six years passed before they were allowed to immigrate to the U.S. TIME was able to get many of its Vietnamese employees and their families out of the collapsing country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew out with his wife and six children on a U.S. Air Force plane a week before Saigon's fall. So did Staff Photographer Le-Minh Thai, now employed in the Los Angeles bureau. Bookkeeper Nga Thi Tran was able to get seats aboard a military helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam a Letter From the Publisher | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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