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Word: writes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative banner to the G.O.P. presidential nomination next year, is already sounding warnings about the conciliatory tone at the White House. "We can call summits with the Soviets and the Democrats, or we can move out with the Reagan agenda," says Kemp. "If the White House sits down to write a trade bill or a budget in a summit with Bob Byrd or Jim Wright, it's over." When the President met last week with a delegation of conservative Senators, he listed as his legislative priorities the deployment of Star Wars, a balanced-budget amendment and prohibition of abortion. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan: Trying a Comeback | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...ranges from $90,000 to $600,000. A typical camera person pulls in about $43,000 before overtime. Junior producers, who accompany the reporter and help set up interviews and research the piece, earn between $45,000 and $75,000. Senior network producers, who also help write and edit stories, make from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: News by the Numbers | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...story set in and expressly concerned with the current political and social conditions of South Africa. It is short, clear, direct and intensely unforgiving--a cry from the heart, dedicated to "my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BOOKS: | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

Legislated reforms are not popular among educators. A Florida statute which requires students to write 6000 words per month has been a frequent target. "The law was based on the observation that students don't do much writing," Adelman said. "We can't quarrel with the motivation, but whether or not the right amount is 60, 6000, or 60,000 words we don't know. The decision was arbitrary...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: Assessing the Value of a Harvard Education | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...time he graduates from high school, Junior will be able to face the challenges of higher academia with Transcendental Signifier firmly in hand. He has learned enough French to translate Tel Quel (So What) and enough German to converse knowingly about Aufheben. His bluebooks instruct him to write only in the margins. As he looks ahead to college, the choice of the major is the next question: will it be Historicismn or Metaphysics? Panaestheticism, Diachronics or Sociolects? In his first romance, he can hope for jouissance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO WHAT | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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