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Word: awaiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the AAA automobile club of Washington had illegally discriminated on the basis of marital status by refusing to grant associate membership to a gay man's domestic partner. A city law that could require health plans to provide insurance benefits to domestic partners has been shelved while officials await clarification of an Internal Revenue Service ruling that suggests that these benefits might be considered taxable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Should Gays Have Marriage Rights? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...similar sort of success may await Some Can Whistle, McMurtry's 13th novel. If so, that will be a redemption of sorts for an uncharacteristical ly spotty performance between hard covers. Plot has given way to concocted situations, conversation displaced by laugh-track dialogue. Everything and everyone in the tale reeks of Hollywood, particularly the narrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Movie-Cute | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

More horrors await. An almost endless train of tuneless trollops traipses by, each one hoping for a taste of fleeting fame on the fleabag cocktail club circuit. Frank moans, "37 singers and not one who could carry a tune. There was a certain surreal quality...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

Since then, Johnston has cooled off, but her effort against the Lions was rewarded by an Ivy Player of the Week award. If she resumes her torrid scoring clip, All-Ivy honors await...

Author: By Hank Hudepohl, | Title: Leading the Women Booters With Class | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

...passenger reported that the aircraft split into two or three pieces, with part of the jetliner suspended out of the water and the wing section afloat. Survivors crawled onto the wing to await their rescue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jet Down in N.Y. Harbor; Three of 62 Known Dead | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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