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Word: destructive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 6, 1981 | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...scientists have access to their work. The ultimate safeguard: bacteria especially designed to self-destruct if they escaped the nurturing environment of the lab. Yet even without these precautions, subsequent tests showed that probably none of the doomsday scenarios could have occurred. Last year the NIH dropped most of the restrictions on gene-splicing work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Life In the Lab | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...happens every time. You can set your watch by it. Programmed into the women's basketball team is a self-destruct mechanism which goes into effect every time the squad begins to take control of a game...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Hoopsters Self-Destruct; Season Mark Falls to 1-5 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...tunnel; hordes of anti-War students get "Clean for Gene" and the Wisconsin senator-cum-poet's strong showing stuns LBJ into with-drawing from the race. A ghost with a five o'clock shadow named Richard Nixon rises from the dead as other Republicans self-destruct...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Quadrennial Quest | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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