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Word: burner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this fall, with guests Rodney Dangerfield, Jane Curtin, Judd Hirsch and the Charlie Daniels Band. And he is not unknown in movies either: The Landlord, Hooper and the in-progress animated film The Last Unicorn. Klein's also got some of his own film projects and scripts on the burner...

Author: By Steven X. Rea, | Title: The Salty Tongue of ROBERT KLEIN | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...bantustans does not perturb de Villiers. She sees democracy as a distant prospect in South Africa's future, explaining that it is possible only within a "confederal framework" comgining the banstustans--which will represent the Africans--with the all-white Republic. Saying it is on "the back burner," de Villiers similarly accepts another issue that provokes international objections: South Africa's continued occupation of Namibia and invasions of neighboring Angola...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Journalism in Africa: Chronicling Turmoil......And Defining the 'Opposition Press' | 10/15/1980 | See Source »

Draped in a red, white and green Iranian flag, the coffin was placed in state in the Abdin palace. An honor guard of four Egyptian generals stood with swords drawn as incense from a brass burner wafted through the air. Egyptian President Sadat, in full military band delivered a drum roll as the coffin was borne on a caisson drawn by six black Arabian horses. The cortege proceeded solemnly through the streets of Cairo, to the shouts of thousands of Egyptians lining the 1.2-mile route. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Exile Laid to Rest | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...basic lesson in civics when his proposal fell on hard times in the Senate. A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee learned that federal agency budget requests would overrun budgetary ceilings and Carter's plan--which called for a $13.3 million budgetary supplement-- was put on the back burner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sign 'em Up, Ship 'em Out | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...heat their workrooms. Now a growing number of U.S. gas stations and auto salvagers are doing the same. They are installing so-called junk oil furnaces that utilize an idea pioneered 17 years ago by a West German garage owner, Walter Kroll, who developed a waste oil burner to save on heating costs for his shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Use for Gunk | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

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