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Word: intervallic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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King, who had lobbied for the drinking age to go up to 21 but settled for 20, wants the bill to go into effect before spring fever hits college campuses and before proms and graduations hit high schools. By filing a letter with the Massachusetts Secretary of State, he can...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: The Party's Over | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

There have always been film biographies, of course. Al Jolson's story was done twice while he was still alive, and there have been movies about famous folk like Madame Curie and Benjamin Disraeli. But the voracious appetite for real subjects, particularly on TV, is new, and so is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Flood of Film Biography | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

The bureau estimates that the overall rate by which world population has been increasing annually declined by about 5% in the past decade, from an average hike of 1.98% a year in the 1965-70 period to 1.88% in the 1975-77 interval. Significantly, there were slowdowns not only in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULATION: Turning Point? | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

The CIA can do little to fight back against Agee's efforts to damage its reputation and hamper its operations. Civil charges against Agee for breaking his CIA secrecy contract?which were used successfully by the agency against ex-CIA Officer Frank Snepp, whose Decent Interval accused the U.S. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dirty Work | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Bulldozing a trench four meters (13 ft.) deep, he found several distinct breaks in the strata of sand, silt, gravel and peat that had been deposited on the bottom of the marsh over the centuries. Each break represented a sudden shift of at least a meter or two between the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: California's Fate | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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