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Word: households (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked in a room called the Black Vault, off limits to all but half a dozen TRW employees. The group found plant security so lax that they spent their days getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling: the CIA was spying by satellite on friendly nations like France and Israel and trying to topple the new leftist government of Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...there was running water only in Phnom-Penh." Labbe observed a flourishing capitalist-style free market in food and in goods smuggled from Thailand. Cambodians who buried gold and jewelry during the Pol Pot regime have now disinterred their valuables in order to pay for the rice, clothing and household goods sold in the markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Struggling Back to Life | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...will spend some $62 billion on imported oil, an average of $800 per American household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here They Come Again | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Wilber animates Fanny Cavendish, the grand dame of both stage and family, with accomplished ease: she seems as comfortable acting the role on stage as her comfortable acting the role on stage as her character does adding bits of drama to living room scenes. Wilber presides over both her household and this production with the assurance of a great actress who no longer needs to prove herself...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Family Entertainment | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...baby will impose some new demands on the haphazard, casual Gummer household; Meryl's recorded mes sage on her phone-answering machine sounds more laid back than most new parents are allowed to be: "Hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mother Finds Herself | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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