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Word: maneuverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The President's call last week for a constitutional amendment to allow voluntary prayer in public schools was both a deft expression of support for a New Right cause that seems to have broad public appeal and an effective maneuver to defuse this potentially explosive issue. Even as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mending Fences on Social Issues | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

This week leftist unions and Socialist Party organizations will celebrate the first anniversary of the electoral victory that brought Mitterrand's Socialists and his Communist allies to power for the first time since the '30s. What the celebrators can cheer most honestly is just the sort of shrewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Middle Way for Socialism | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

The title is obviously symbolic, but it is also quite literal, the name of the auto-salvage company run by a race driver Al Shaw (Bruno Lawrence, a strong actor who also worked on the script). His wife Jacqui (Anna Jemison) and his daughter Georgie (Greer Robson, a child of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Breaking Up | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

With a deceptively simple set of commands, LOGO enables youngsters who know nothing of geometry or algebra, and barely know how to read, to manipulate a triangular figure, dubbed the Turtle, on a computer screen and trace all manner of shapes with it. At the Lamplighter School in Dallas, teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come the Microkids | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

American ingenuity has produced some novel ideas. Police increasingly videotape the slurring and lurching of detained driv ers for use later as evidence. In Los Angeles some second-time offenders have to use a specially equipped car. After turning on the ignition, the driver must maneuver the steering wheel so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Is the Party Finally Over? | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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