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Word: wonderful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress [Jan. 23] with independence, more democratic procedures and faster turnover among its members sounds encouraging. However, I wonder about their making decisions that play well with the folks back home. When we want both increased Government services and decreased taxes, it must be hard to decide how to vote. I hope Congress will provide more leadership. We can't have it both ways, and it's time someone told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1978 | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Sometimes I look around at all the turkeys who lucked into the B-school and financial security, and I wonder if they're all that good," he said...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: B-School Students, Faculty Call Salary Survey Misleading | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...Vellucci's own words, "They blew it--they fooled around too long." So he turned around and gave Danehy his vote. Vellucci claims to have felt ignored by the liberals, after doing them favors for the past two years, but some observers wonder if this is the only factor contributing to his support of Danehy. He is not, after all, trying to change his position--he has voted according to his own principles and not just for the liberals...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Danehy Takes the Gavel | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...right to make a clinker now and then, Lina Wertmuller has really outdone herself in her first English-language film. This all too cutely titled comedy is not merely a failure: it's a devastating self-parody. Indeed, audiences who sit through it may well begin to wonder why they ever admired such superior Wertmuller efforts as Love and Anarchy and Seven Beauties. Or they may wonder if they stay awake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Water Torture | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...wonder, then, that man's great dream has been some day to control the weather. The first step toward control, of course, is knowledge, and scientists have been hard at work for years trying to keep track of the weather. The U.S. and other nations have created an international apparatus that maintains some 100.000 stations to check the weather round the clock in every sector of the globe and, with satellites, in a good deal of the more than 4 billion cubic miles of the atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Weather: Everyone's Favorite Topic | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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