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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it's the name. If you call yourself the World Trade Organization, you can't complain much if people dial your 800 number and gripe about world trade. If a bunch of heads of government plan a triumphalist self-celebration in Seattle, you can't blame party poopers for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystical Power of Free Trade | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

This is no glorified babysitting service. Mom can't swing by with a sob story about the pressures of modern parenting, unload her brood and zip off to the spa. The screening questions are intense, and parents--75% of whom earn less than $10,000 a year--have to map...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Safe Place to Be Till The Folks Calm Down | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Sara Pearson was working the phones at the crisis nursery the day Anita called about little Vicente. Anita had used the service before, so Pearson knew her story: the rocky marriage, the learning-disabled kids, the paycheck that barely covers the bills even when her husband works two jobs. "She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Safe Place to Be Till The Folks Calm Down | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Thus is he damned by his own gifts. On the closing night of Sail Away's limited run last month, Stritch told the audience about a conversation from the early '60s. "I asked Noel if he was afraid of death," Stritch recalled, "and he said the only thing he feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad About the Boy: Noel Coward | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

About reports that she had relapsed into abusing alcohol or drugs, she explains, with only a bit of Hollywood indirection: "If somebody looked at you and [because of medical problems] said, 'You can't ever sing and dance again...' It was depressing. And if you have this disease, you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe This Time | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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