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Word: tracee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace of wonder. "Nobody thought it would have the effect it had." Wojciech Gruszecki, 44, who has been advising Poland's private farmers, has a doctorate in chemical engineering. Says he: "At a certain age, every citizen should give something to his society and his nation." That age came early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Want a Decent Life | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...other country. "Opponents of detente," he charged, "are making a noise for all the world to hear about a 'Soviet threat' either to Pakistan or to the countries of the Persian Gulf, or God knows to whomever else. They know very well that there is no trace of such a threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Parleys About Peace and Power | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...ACADEMICS mount a tall hill And trace the car's path, holding still. His first stop is New York City, Home of the guaranteed loan. He makes a brief stop on Charlotte St. Delivers one "free enterprise zone." Then off to the schools of Kentucky, With a gift they lost decades ago--A teachable theory of creation, For Darwin was wrong, as we know. A side-trip to Detroit, just briefly--long enough to leave two gifts: A loosening of emission standards And for K-Car sales a lift. Then on to the national forests--The real environmental dangers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Phantasm | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

This sense of the robot as a helper rather than a menace is widespread among factory hands. Though robots are highly vulnerable to sabotage, there has been no trace of the Luddite violence that threatened the first labor-saving machines of the Industrial Revolution. On the contrary, working with a robot seems to confer status. And, while the machine usually looks less like a man than like a lobster, its human partners often seem unable to resist giving it a name and even lavishing on it a certain metallic affection. When one machine known as "Clyde the Claw" broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...world where such cravings were honorable. Some say that he traded for fame with the gods, exchanging a brief life for a long thereafter. Hamlet tells Horatio that Alexander's fame came to nothing: "To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he finds it stopping a bunghole?" Still, his fame has come this far. His tomb was on display for 700 years and he is not through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alexander Takes Washington | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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