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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci read to the council, Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers said the 25-year-old tree had come under attack recently, adding "it is not a pleasant sight...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: City to Save Lampy Tree | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

Eric Clapton's Journeyman is a disappointing collection of apparently left over tracks from the August recording sessions, thrown together with some new, mainly pop-oriented material. A few pleasant tracks contributed by blues musician Robert Cray and three wonderful new covers of some 40-year-old blues tunes fail to carry Clapton's latest album to a level significantly above that of any of his other projects of the past 10 years...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Sticks to Your Shoes | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...Today has been exceptionally pleasant because both sides have been considerate, have shared food and ideas," said Elizabeth W. Flaherty, who canvassed yesterday outside City Hall for Councillor William H. Walsh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polls and Polish Mark Voting for Council, 1-2-3 | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...disputes that most of the benefit of the proposed tax break for capital gains -- profits from the sale of investment assets such as stocks and real estate -- would go to people with incomes of more than $200,000 a year, or that the average person in that pleasant category would save $25,000 a year in taxes. The dispute is whether this break (which has passed the House and is currently stalled in the Senate) would be so good for the economy that we would all prosper from it, making resistance on fairness grounds foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Capitalist's Guide to Capital Gains | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...crowd the other one, or influence each other's life decisions right now," Bomba, a mass communications major (what else?), explains to us before a framed photo of her soon-to-be-former mate. Others, they explain coolly, eyes ever on the prize, have opted for such admittedly pleasant diversions as ski bumming and white water rafting, having apparently decided, along with Shakespeare, that their "mistress" eyes are nothing like...

Author: By Michael Blumenthal, | Title: The 'Base Compromise' of Youth | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

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