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Word: gettingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the resort and university town of Santa Cruz, 75 miles south of San Francisco, Heidi Nyburg was enjoying the ocean view as she strolled along West Cliff Drive. When she approached the Dream Inn, where she works as a desk clerk, her serenity vanished. "Cars were bumping up and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

UNLIMITED MILEAGE. Drug terrorism has increased the cost of getting Attorney General Richard Thornburgh around. The nation's top cop now rides in a $100,000 armor-plated limo instead of a Government-issue

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Oct. 30, 1989 | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Non-ordered choice would eliminate stereotypes by getting rid of the ranked choices that enable similar people to fill up one house. If everyone chooses three or four houses that they would be equally happy in, then no house could be filled by any one group.

Author: By James C. Harmon, | Title: Choice Is the Best Policy | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

The ending of the play, however, is slightly disappointing. While the bit about Gussie Fink-Nottle getting drunk for the first time and then handing out academic awards to small children is amusing, the parts in which Wooster bursts into song run a little long.

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Pass the Butler | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

All great photographs have lives of their own, but they can be as false as dreams. Somehow the mind knows that and sorts out the matter, and permits itself to enjoy the pictures without getting sunk in the really mysterious business that they involve.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

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